She looked at me, her fierce green eyes matched the green Earth. Her dark hair bounced around her shoulders as she marched through the grass towards me.

"Let’s go. The quest is done. We can live now. Let’s go!" She grabbed my hand and tried to pill me with her but I stood rooted in the grass.

"I know. But I still have more to do," I said uncertainly. I suddenly felt every ray of sun on my face or was my face just getting hot? Why was I nervous? What did I have to do? She was right the quest was over. We won. I didn’t need to go out and fight anymore. But it was comfortable I knew what I was doing.

She looked at me sadly, "no you don’t. There isn’t anything you need to do anymore. Come with me."

"I-I can’t," I said unsure of why I was pushing back so hard. She was right. But I had always had something to fight, some danger to be aware of. I was constantly just barely surviving. Now there was… nothing. I was done. I could live and yet-

"Your afraid to live," she said softly. She had stopped trying to pull on my arm. "Your more afraid to live, then you ever were to die."

I nodded slowly, "dying is easy. Living. Living takes a lot of work. I’m not sure I’m ready for it."

"I don’t know if I am either. But I’m going to try. We are going to try. Together. Let’s start by enjoying this beautiful day," she said.