The Shipwreck - Chapter 23
Silence. That prevailed under the sea. Absolute silence, different from that which one experiences in a simply quiet place. Arsik had all the time in the world to realize that as his body was sinking, as all of them were sinking. No wind to blow between the trees or insects to whizz past their ears. No night birds or seagulls; not even the steady whooshing of the waves. Silence. There was no pain in his fall. His eyes stared up, where the surface was still visible at first. He saw the fire’s light breaking into a thousand colors, swallowing two ships like a wild, uncontrollable beast. As the colors moved further away though, they lost their brilliance and faded until, in the end, they looked like distant stars – worthless now, no good for anything, not even orientation. Ars
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