He stood in the center of his small apartment, the air smelling of cedar and old books. Most people thought blindness was a wall, but for Elias, it was a stage. He reached out, his fingers brushing the velvet of a chair he knew by heart, and then he closed his eyes—a habit he’d never quite broken. "Dancing with in my eyes," he whispered to the empty room.
The high, sharp notes of the trumpet were flecks of gold, stinging and bright. The deep, thrumming bass was a velvet purple that wrapped around his ankles. He began to move. He wasn't a professional, but in the privacy of his mind, he was weightless. Dancing With In My Ayes
In those moments, the "eyes" he danced with were not the ones that had failed him years ago. They were the ones that lived in his pulse and his fingertips. When the record finally hissed into silence, the colors didn't fade immediately. They lingered like an afterglow, a private aurora borealis that only he could witness. He stood in the center of his small