MATURE. Adults only. Every named and speaking character is an adult, with an age on the page: Mara Voss 29, Ilia Petrov 34, Dr Sena Okafor 41, Jonah Reed 27, Rev Calloway 30, Nessa Voss 56, Chief Halloran 52, Tilda Mbeki 38, Owen Pike 44, Dr Rook 50. The youngest is 27. No minor exists in the book in any role, memory, or plan. Themes: a fishing town of one thousand four hundred on a cold coast; a bay that goes red at 21:50; a hospital with two hundred cots and sixty-one confirmed dead at 23:00, one hundred and thirty-nine living; a switchboard that patches one call at a time; a transmitter at eleven kilohertz; a generator holding nine hundred litres and burning one hundred and ten litres an hour at full load against eight hours of night; a tide at four point eight metres at 23:40 and still rising; a last ferry at six o'clock with three hundred and twenty seats and three hundred and ten names; police with twelve rounds; a mortician's count that disagrees with the hospital's by two. Body horror is graphic at the pier at eleven forty at night, the hospital basement at ten past one, the lighthouse at three o'clock, and the chapel at five o'clock: bodies that keep talking, a birth sac in the tide, and a count of the drowned that keeps moving. Sexual content: Mara Voss is 29 and is not married to any of the four people she is with. Each intimacy scene is between two adults, each begins with what both want said out loud, either can stop it with one word, and the word is said once and honoured immediately with no question. The scenes are written in full and specific to the two people and the room. They are not rewards and unlock no choice and no ending. Each costs something the clean version did not: the ferry route loses a berth, the hospital route loses one patient, the station route loses the pier light, and the bloom route loses the town's silence. No injury is depicted for its own sake, no method of weapon, drug, or intrusion is described, and no slur is written out. Fictional town, station, hospital, ferry, and people. All music is instrumental, vocal playback is disabled, and lyrics are empty.