[Bush has never seen anything quite like this; he has seen similar. Cannon-shot turns a head, a chest, into something like this. A deck can have deep pools of blood; it can run from the scuppers in torrents. And he has seen, in his second service, the worst the sea can do to a man. But this is... more than any of that.
He has a mop of his own and some sturdy plastic bags, one of the blessings of the barge.]
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He has a mop of his own and some sturdy plastic bags, one of the blessings of the barge.]
We should have a burial.