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Eli, who had traveled down in silence, answered. “Sometimes people leave because staying would kill them. Old life feels more final than death. They step through whatever’s on offer and come out the other side different. Dead to one life, alive to another.”

On the ferry back, Mara turned the small wooden bird over in her hand. The sea lapped like a metronome. She thought about the strange architecture of absence: how people vanish into other selves for reasons that have nothing to do with the people they leave behind. She thought of the lie of funerals—how they try to enshrine people permanently in a single posture. She thought of the truth of departures—how sometimes someone exits to discover they are not dead; they are merely alive elsewhere. Dead Or Alive Isaidub