Jim looks at the body of the pilot. The face was younger than Jim remembered, childlike. Jim imagined the pilot as a child and imagined his mother placing a morsel of pork in his dead mouth. Jim was in despair; he had placed all his hope on this young pilot, that they would fly away together. He needed the pilot to survive and show the way. The pilot was an imaginary twin of himself. He thought that if his twin was dead, he must be too. Jim knows better but he fails to grasp the Chinese concept that we're all as good as dead anyway.
Jim pulls the body of the pilot out of the water and onto the bank. He examines his wounds. Jim sits beside his body and begins to.....
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