second verse ☯ video;

[problematical]

He's gone, the other one... not Hawke. He was so heavy, he took away all the air wherever he went, drained it out like a vacuum.

[ Someone has noticed one of her suitemates has left the turtle and although she never spoke to him, seems much relieved he's not there. (Sorry Bert.) ]

There's so many secrets here, sometimes it's hard to breathe, to think. Keep trying to pull them out and... and...

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[problematical]

I don't mean to go digging them up. Sometimes I just... find them. Even when I don't want to.

[backinakidflash]

Sometimes. It's hard to keep stuff from bubbling to the surface, y'know? Can't weigh everything down in cement bags in your head. You'd crush your neck.

[problematical]

[ She looks alarmed, like this is a possibility she hadn't considered as opposed to taking it as the metaphor. ]

A cubic inch of bone can in principle bear a load of, on average, 19,000 pounds or 8,626 kilograms. Roughly the weight of five standard pickup trucks, making it about four times as strong as concrete.

[backinakidflash]

Yeah, but they're already under pressure from the atmosphere. I dunno the exact numbers here. It's 14.7 pounds on every square inch on Earth. Besides. [He shrugs a little.] That's on principle. It doesn't take 19,000 pounds to break a bone. Just the wrong angle.