Or automatic. We didn't know.
She was out of breath, huffing and gasping, a cold sweat ran down her forehead. She shivered and looked up at me in the dark. I couldn't do anything. And I woke up.
The phone rang about 5 am. It was my partner. We had a body. No doer he said. Yet. No "cause of" yet either. But a body. Work. The others would make the call anyway.
He picked me up. Drove me to the scene. It was quiet. A gull landed on the piling behind it. Silent. I thought it was odd. The quiet. When a body spends any significant amount of time in the water it changes. It gets changed. Not in a good way. So "no doer" and "no cause of" was not unusual. The smell was not unusual either. Hard to get used to but you did get. Eventually. Helped if you had an empty stomach.
