She glittered.
She held still, even as her body was wracked with sobs. Her frame shook, it trembled, she seemed to vibrate. Her sadness was overtaking her, blurring her shape until she was unrecognizable. She sagged, folding into herself; she locked herself in. With her arms bent so unkindly and her legs strewn haphazardly before her, she sealed off permanently.
Her face, the least appealing aspect of her, was so stunningly heartbreaking, the literal window. It was made of stone, chiseled to perfect sorrow, as crystal tears carved their way down the planes of her cheeks. They sparkled beautifully when they fell off her chin, diamonds as they clattered, scattering and rebounding off the linoleum.
She started, hiccuping into alertness. Blinking blearily, her joints creaked as she rubbed away the melted crystals from her eyes. She didn't move. She held still. Her house of matchsticks had not held, and she was planning on skipping the bricks. She looked up, her eyes the liquified steel she was already forming around her.
In a blind sort of fashion, she reached out, fingers pattering and spidering toward the settling diamonds. She cinched one in the crease between in her fingers. picking up and holding it toward her face. It caught the light. But rather than create the illusion of a preppy rainbow, it shimmered. It loosened. Her eyes snapped toward it, discarded the peripherals she was using, and stared at it. She held it closer.
With a tilt of her hand, she realized the gem did not roll, but instead it trailed down the side of her palm like water. She watched unbelievingly as it fell swiftly off her hand and down... Down into her walls.
Her steel accepted the molten diamond and it bonded so forcefully, it made her shudder and tremble and seemingly vibrate. She blinked. She stirred. She blinked, once, twice; her head cleared the fog.
Suddenly. Just suddenly, she stood, walking away from her deadened spot.
If she were the same person she was before, if she hadn't unknowingly stopped being, she would've cared as her diamonds crushed and crusted on the bottom of her shoes, or that if she had continued caring, she would've noticed when she crossed the open window...
She stopped glittering.