“Tears welled, blurring the world into water and stone.”

And now, with nothing left but silence and stone beneath her, that warmth tugged at her chest with a grief she could no longer ignore. She traded Aloha for ambition. Standing on the edge of whatever came next, she realized she might never get it back. Now, all those waves of possibility dissipated. Tears welled, blurring the world into water and stone. Lost in grief and thought, she didn’t see the uneven cobblestone until it caught her foot—sent her stumbling, then falling, fast and graceless.