Whether she lives or not.

I don’t know that the line there evokes a suicide. I think it evokes for me at least a willingness to return to land. A suicide would, I think, be “I’m just going to stay here.”

You’re on to something about the rest at the beginning. The roiling surface of the comic, the way it seems to change surfaces until everything seems to be a referent for if not everything, many things–that was interesting. I liked the way we seem to drop through trap doors of metaphor from one to the next to the next, like some game of chutes and ladders. It created a layered, dramatically intense story out of what could have been something very simple. For all we know, it’s all a dream Chris is having in that tent.