“My highest dive yet. The impact as I enter, the shock of cold, the chaos of bubbles, the water streaming through my fur and flapping my (unfashionably baggy) swimsuit as I plunge down, down... until my momentum is spent and I come to a halt, suspended in place for the long instant before I float back upwards. The coolness, the silence, the calm. Below me, darkness; it must be every bit as deep here as they say. The thud of my heart slows; my body relaxes; the peace of the deep flows in. In a moment I shall begin rising back up to daylight and sound and the world. In a moment...”