Do You Have the Courage to Venture into the Rotten Sea and Abandon the Ship?

The damp and cold air, wrapped in the stench of rust and putrefaction, hit the face. The lamps sizzled, and the pale light flickered on and off. I sat up on the cold steel floor, my head felt dizzy and swollen, and the bones in my body felt like they had been dismantled and reassembled.