Sometimes I love placeholders as much as I love the real thing

I know where I'm going with the story!  This is very exciting.  This will not, actually, be the ending:

heat transfer, my skin slowly merging with the water around it, carried away into something else, something larger and more strange, warming in tiny ways something really far away, things out of my control, things I can never control, stop worrying and let it go yay I have a metaphor!