"That's one damn way of puttin' it." Lowly, darkly.

"I - I know this is gonna sound crazy, hoss, but I swear it - it at least seemed like it happened. I--" He halted, the words failing him despite having tried to tell this story many times before.

"I started to - hell, I don't know. Like all the water in my body suddenly needed to be out of it, leavin' every damn cell and watchin' myself shrivel up, my muscles disappear--"