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And to me she said, "Don't worry, it's only deathDon't let it bother you I felt no sadness in that strange placeDeath was death, and Naoko was Naoko"What's the problem?" she asked me with a bashful smile, 327 "I'm here, aren't I?" Her familiar little gestures soothed my heart like a healing balm"If this is death," I thought to myself, "then death is not so bad "It's true," said Naoko, "death is nothing muchThings are so easy for me here Naoko spoke to me in the spaces between the crashing of the dark wavesEventually, though, the tide would pull back, and I would be left on the beach alonePowerless, I could go nowhere