--dead? Yes. Yes, that's exactly what it looked like. That's exactly what it was.
The experience of being dead, of drowning, buried not in earth but swallowed by deep waters.
"That was the goal, yes!" The enthusiasm this time is much more sincere--which conveys its own form of violence. "Death--yes, everything leads to death, eventually. It's.... familiar. A kind of... peace."
Yes. His peace. The peace of death? Silence. Inside and out.
He's gotten distracted in the nature of his own explanation--preoccupied, really--so he's not even looking at her any more, but down into the water.
no subject
The experience of being dead, of drowning, buried not in earth but swallowed by deep waters.
"That was the goal, yes!" The enthusiasm this time is much more sincere--which conveys its own form of violence. "Death--yes, everything leads to death, eventually. It's.... familiar. A kind of... peace."
Yes. His peace. The peace of death? Silence. Inside and out.
He's gotten distracted in the nature of his own explanation--preoccupied, really--so he's not even looking at her any more, but down into the water.