I got my feet back under me.

I straightened my spine, and locked my knees, and lifted my head, and looked him full in the face with eyes that were sober-clear — and I watched the confusion hit him.

“I said,” I told him, “look up.”

Chapter 12 — U.S. Coast Guard

For one full second he just stared at me, uncomprehending, a man whose script had stopped making sense.

Then the night came apart.