AN: Trying something new to practice keeping my writing to a certain word limit. I hope you like it!

Pain. So much pain. Unbearable pain. I stumbled forward, and all I could think was no. Edward, where had he gone? I tripped every other step, my eyes blurry from tears and my mind clouded with gut wrenching melancholy. I blindly hiked through the forest, knowing that logically there was no Edward here. He was long gone, and likely so was his family. They were all gone.

The tears continued to flow, but how I didn't know. They should have run out, as it seemed I had been crying for years.

Strangely, my lips never parted, and I never sobbed.