I'm in Survival Hell, You're in Party Heaven
I threw myself in front of them, arms spread wide, blocking the path.
"Don't go. Please. Just leave me some dignity. Don't look at me like that! Don't look at what's down there!"
That was my body down there, the most wretched, humiliated, broken version of me imaginable. I didn't want to become cocktail conversation, and I didn't want them crowding around my corpse and picking apart every detail.
None of it mattered. They walked right through me, laughing and chatting, heading toward the back of the garden where a cluster of decorative rocks sat behind a low wall. Tucked behind them was an entrance, camouflaged so well that anyone could walk right past it without a second glance.