it laid out over his face like a thick fog. i could still see him through it. he no longer saw me. he lay there still and covered with it, motionless. he lay still now. his was not skin any more. a simple barrier between it and rot. he lay still and empty now. empty below it. it's time I walk away, he has no use for me here. it has covered him now. he lay still and empty, lonely now. life is elsewhere now and death lay covering him.
