Every time exhaustion weighed her down, she cast away a part of herself so that she could continue walking with less burden.
Then, whenever the weight returned, she discarded even more.
Eventually, nothing remained but a featureless ghost.
She had forgotten most of what she was fighting for.
She had forgotten the reason she continued moving forward.
All she knew was that she could not stop.
Her journey lasted for years upon years of endless torment until her strength finally gave out.
She collapsed upon the cold, dark road, no longer capable of continuing.
From that point onward, her only desire became rest.
A rest she believed could only be found through death.
Yet death never came.
She remained alive.
And in place of death came pain.
An unbearable amount of it.
So she suffered in silence, buried within the depths of that cold abyss.
Audrey believed this fate would continue forever.
