MATURE. Adults only. Every named and speaking character is an adult, with an age on the page: Imogen Harrow 45, Mark Harrow 47, Lucy Annet 34, Denzil Rooke 69, Marie Rooke 66, Gavin Orrell 39, Priya Raghunath 49, Mark Ellington 58, Pauline Nagle 61, and Martyn Bolton was 34 when he died on 2 September 2015. The youngest is 34. No minor appears in any role, memory, photograph, joke, announcement, plan, or future reference. Themes: one sentence begun at a level crossing at 23:44 on 2 September 2015 and never finished. A fatal collision closed at 04:52 that morning by a Detective Sergeant who did not yet know a man had died, and never amended when he was told at 11:40. The same officer, eleven years on, as a Detective Superintendent, with the reopened file reporting into his own force. A man of 34 who spent the last forty-seven seconds of his life on a 999 call, telling a handler about the woman who had struck him. A caller's note in a box that was left blank. A Rail Accident Investigation Branch report that asked for the file twice and was told twice that the reference could not be traced. A car kept for eleven years in a stone garage. The count of the seconds, at the same junction, twice a week, four hundred and six times. And a note in a glovebox that is not the sentence. Sexual content: Imogen and Mark are both adults and have been married to each other since 2007. What each of them wants and what stops it is said out loud before anything begins, either of them can stop it at any point with one word, and one of them does use the word before they start. The scene is written in full and is specific to these two people and to one car. It is not a reward: it costs the book the last hour in which the sentence could have been said as a private thing. No civic choice is gated on it and no ending is unlocked by it. Death and violence: a death is described from a post-mortem record, from a 999 operator's contemporaneous note, and from what was said in a police station car park afterwards. No injury is depicted, and no method of injury, of drug preparation, or of entering a building is described. Prejudice appears as an assumption about a man with 4.2 per cent uncorrected vision and a road surface, and is shown only through what people do with it. No slur is written. Fictional force, railway line, crossing, people, and documents. All music is instrumental, vocal playback is disabled, and lyrics are empty. No media is generated, fetched, or bundled with this project.