But It Was Smell That Carried Memory.

People Sometimes Talk About The Power Of First Impressions, And Believe Me, There Is Truth To It.

Maybe There Is More Truth In How You Feel Than In What Actually Happens.

Her Vision Of The World Under The Water Represented A Beautiful Stillness, A Version Of Heaven. It Was The Lost City Of Lena, Her Alternate Universe, The Life She Yearned For But Didn't Get To Have.

She'd Cried Over A Broken Heart Before. She Knew What That Felt Like, And It Didn't Feel Like This. Her Heart Felt Not So Much Broken As Just ... Empty. It Felt Like She Was An Outline Empty In The Middle. The Outline Cried Senselessly For The Absent Middle. The Past Cried For The Present That Was Nothing.

For The First Time She Saw That The Nurse's Name Was Tabitha.