Into the blue...

One time, when all the world was asleep, I breathed. Slow at first, and then deep and long. The air was cool on my hands and ran up my arms to my shoulders leaving bumps in its wake. It touched my lips and shivered into my nose, cool enough to slightly burn its way into my lungs. I breathed. I breathed and I listened. I listened for the slightest stirring, but heard none. Time was still, dark, and I waited. I waited for the seconds, minutes, and hours to pass by, too hurried to wait for me. They kept running until I was alone. Alone in the dark stillness of night. That was when the shiver came for me. It grabbed hold of my ankles and pulled its way up my spine, biting each bony bump along the way to my neck where it pooled, constricted, and vanished.