The scum on the bilge water caught the lamplight and looked like stars for a second. Not something to smile at, and I smiled anyway.

• TheoUm, that's the thing you saw last night, right? I saw it too, really.
  SelviaIf you saw it, write down the angle. Say it out loud and nothing's left of it.
  TheoI wrote it down!! Three times!
• YuanaThat's not scum. That's mold.