Here is the boy, drowning.

“I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn'…”

“Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're par…”

“No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most peo…”

“Along the edge of this green lived a man. His name is not important, as no one …”