I was dead.
Dead.
Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead.
Or on my way to it. Being cleaved in half is synonymous with my demise, I thought. If I were to look up my end like it was an idiom in a scholar's text, I was certain I'd find, "To be axed; To be hacked; To be chopped, etc." - Nyx

"I guess the writer ran out of big words," I offered dryly. - Nyx

What a mess, what a hurricane, what a muddy pit of a mind. She couldn't tell ass from elbow, and she tried so hard to. What at one point seemed a nose, turned out to be a knee; and what at one point seemed a foot, turned out to be her mouth. - Elmiryn

Not even a small curse? Can't you call me a [misognyst slur]? Or a cream-basted sow? What about a shit-faced ninny? - Elmiryn

"Rocks fall. Everyone dies." I snapped the book shut. "Sorry, that's the end." - Nyx