"Something I Never Expected," by Liz Wheeler

Something I never expected to find was looking at me with those huge brown eyes. Like an emoji that one would send that doesn’t blink, that doesn’t know what has happened. They were crystal clear, so bold in their shape, their color, their strength. They were running from something that had trapped them in this lifetime. They were looking at me, asking me to free them, but I didn’t want them to run back into my life again. So, where was I to release them? How did I tell them “I will let you go if you run the other way”? So, I looked into those big brown eyes, released the trap that was holding them, only hanging then, and do you know something that I never expected, happened. Those big brown eyes ran the other way. Or were they blue? That would have been something I would have expected!