Your protagonist sees a shooting star. What does he or she wish for?
She watches the sky dispassionately. The emptiness consumes her like flames licking at dry wood. She is burning up with it. She never thought that she could burn from emptiness and apathy. She always thought that passion or anger could burn, and emptiness was nothing. But she's burning with her emptiness and drowning in her sadness. It's an interesting paradox to be sure. Out of the corner of her eye she notices a shooting star blaze across the night sky. She closes her eyes, and takes a deep breath, thinking about another light nestled in a beautiful bed of blue. The ache in her heart starts back up, and she squashes it before it has the chance to overwhelm her.
"I wish..." she whispers but pauses, unsure of what to wish.
Does she wish that she could go back in time? Save those she loves who have died? Or at the very least, get more time with them or at least the chance to say goodbye? Change how things ended up and find her true happiness? Does she wish for the courage to do what she needs to do? Or the strength to do what she knows she has to do?
"I wish I didn't feel anything at all," she says definitively.
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