The person who answered was silent for several seconds.
"Sir, this is the mountain rescue team. We found this phone downstream. We've confirmed that its owner drowned in the flood."
When I opened my eyes, I was floating above the river valley.
Rescuers lifted a stretcher out of the mud.
A hand protruded from beneath its waterproof covering.
On the ring finger was the wedding band Neil had given me.
I looked at my own body and felt surprisingly little fear.
So death wasn't darkness.
It was weightlessness.
I was so light that a gust of wind blew me to Neil.
He wouldn't let the rescuers pull the covering over me.
"You've made a mistake. My wife is wearing a blue dress. This woman..."
The rescue captain held out the wedding band. "Please confirm whether it's hers."
Neil wouldn't t
