The whistle was dark. That doesn’t seem to make sense, but it was dark, like the foghorn of a boat about to be swallowed by a whale.
Whistles are usually shrill, piercing, but this one wasn’t.
I could see his perfectly manicured nails entering his mouth before he blew.
He couldn’t stand imperfection.
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