Then everything that made the girl herself through the shedding of time did come out of her, and this essential self of her passed into the air, and the wind that blew over her prone body lifted it into the larger, higher world. She had been born a babe out of the darkness out of nothing; she had sparked to first breath and first wonder. As is the truth of all the people who have walked and will walk upon the earth, she returned at last to all she had been before life.
