Behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: 'Don't believe her.'

The whole world closes around me, like an eyelid: For a moment, everything goes dark.

“That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around…”

“Love, it kills you, both when you have it and when you don't.”

“Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, w…”

“Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.it's the co…”