A sense of calm envelopes me, a feeling close to rapture. Swimming is one of the best things in my life. It has never solved any problems, but it has done no harm, and nothing has ever ruined it for me. Swimming.

“Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed th…”

“And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal r…”

“Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, …”

“Everything we had built up came crashing down. In one split second, everything …”