"She has blue eyes. Not sky blue and not sapphire blue but blue
like the water in the deepest crevices of the oceans. That murky, near-black
liquid that seeps between coral reefs and offers concealment for vile
creatures. Blue like the deep abyss that you don’t even know exists until
suddenly you’re yanked down into it, where the world is ice cold and
unforgiving, and that deep blue water, it’s choking you, and every time you try
to take a deep breath you suck more water down through your nose, and every time
you open your mouth wide to scream it floods your throat. It fills your
nostrils, your mouth, your lungs until the tiny blood vessels in the whites of
your eyes explode, and you sink down into the depths of that black-blue abyss
forever.
She has blue eyes, like the woman who’s hidden in my basement
cellar, bound with razor wire."