"Oh, don't be so scared, it's really very

"Oh, don't be so scared, it's really very easy and not that steep at all. Watch me."

Of course I had to demonstrate, with much yelling and grievous damage to my person, the ease and speed one could traverse this unconvincingly steep gradient.

I started off slow, building momentum as the gradient got more and more inclined. Eventually I realised that this wasn't just a hill, I had reached the end of the Earth itself.

I saw all of this, but only for the briefest of moments. In the days and weeks that were to follow, I would look back incessantly on that moment and wonder if there was anything

I could have done, should have done. All I can do now is accept the regret that haunts me and watch carefully over our future together, committed to not putting myself first.

I stepped back giving her a little push. She stumbled forward falling into the stage light. There was some jeering from the audience as she picked herself up. It was her chance to

shine, to show the world what a star she really was. "The mike! Pick up the mike!" I mouthed to her from backstage. The music began. Terrified, she began to sing, softly at first,

but soon, she began to literally shrink. She shrank to the point where she began to invert into herself. This however, enhanced her voice. It echoed through the room.

As she folded and crumpled into the Singularity, her brilliant voice rang out one last time: "Oh shoot, I think I broke a nail."