Luminescence

[selenias]

It was a lot like drowning—but without the spluttering.

No, correction... it was very much like drowning—except there was air—and sky—and feeling, welcome and unbidden in the dazzling, icy landscape.

Strangely, while she felt the cold pricks of ice moving up her arms, making her spine tingle, and slipping down around her body and circulating... There was another feeling, more noticeable, and thriving in her fingertips.

When the pain gave way to warmth, and it felt as though the sun's light had been instilled in her chest... Estelle opened her eyes, and a spirit with a familiar luminescence greeted her.