“‘Strange thing...I died. Right now, I’m already dead!’”
All of the people listening froze. Somebody gave a gasp, shocked by his last pronouncement. Aman, having adequately relished our reactions, leisurely continued, savouring every word.
“I crouched down. And stared him in the eye and understood that he wasn’t lying. ‘How did this happen?’ I asked him. And then he confessed, ‘I swam out far, farther than usual. It was surprisingly easy to swim. As if there was no water at all, and instead some air was carrying my body. At some point, I happened to turn around and saw that the shore was not behind me. It had disappeared! Transformed into a mist! Finally, I saw it, but it had taken a lot of strength to get there... and you could barely call it a shore, the thing I could see. It fluttered
