More like-- I'm not very good at surfing. A friend of mine tried to teach me one summer break and it was a complete disaster, I'm pretty sure I nearly died about four times. The point is, I got sucked under by more than a few waves, and before the panic and the desperate need to breathe started, it felt... peaceful. And until reality slammed in, it felt kind of like it stretched into forever.

[ and that was the room.

after a long pause: ]

The second one-- he was angry about it, like he had been somewhere else and dropped that to come yank us out.