Beneath the skin, there she was, raging beautiful, timeless and unyielding.
The man was not hesitating as the slow, slow second seemed to progress into eternity. No, he was simply tasting and taking it all in, in its final enduring moment.
Life was about to snap abruptly and forever be cut off.
And you could taste it, you could sense and smell and feel it if you just paused for a moment. Life and death could reveal its ongoing conversation if you just paid enough attention to what they had to say, and in this moment, he heard their words and conversation, he could see it through her eyes, taste it in his own mouth.
Life and death, aww, how sweet it was, their mutual dance.
When he finally pulled the trigger, following a slow, final breath, he let out a softly spoken "Good...bye" as he
