Maria's dream

In her dream Maria could feel the thundering from above.  It was the thundering of a thousand horses.  She could hear the chorus of hoof beats reverberating above her, pushing her down into the deep nothing.  She could feel a thousand eyes upon her, now slowly closing turning away as she sinks lower.  Silence.  She can hear nothing.  Water.  Water being moved.  A light.  A figure standing facing her.  In the dream she strains to see some distinguishing features of its face, but its moving away.  Moving away in the water, others are seated facing away slowly rowing.  Standing at the back of the canoe the figure drifts away into the shrinking light, heavy until it slips into the deep nothing