12. Mirror to the sky

Speech transcription: I imagined the huge puddle, still and in the daytime. It would become a perfect mirror to the sky, a steely slice of white and grey, cloud and light. A sharp, shard of an edge contrasted against the flattened earth it lay upon.

I could have jumped into it like an open window in the ground and found myself plummeting suddenly above everything, down through the clouds and back through time again, to the now dark puddle where my foot lay- toes wiggling- making small squelching noises in the icy mud-water they were swimming in.

Audio description: The clip begins with speech and no sound. After the words ‘mirror to the sky’ a high pitched whistle comes in quietly, followed by an eerie and sudden reversed twinkling sound. Here, whirling wind sounds come in, but get cut off by a high pitched slicing sound that feels as if it’s just travelled past you. A very low and quiet drone grows slightly in volume, with more reversed twinkling and high pitched slicing sound. Following this a shimmery high pitched sound begins slowly pulsing. After the words ‘plummeting suddenly above everything’ there is one spatial whooshing sound as if something moved fast through air in a downward motion. Dripping water sounds come in after the words ‘toes wiggling’, which is joined once by the quiet high pitched whistle again. All sounds fade out. Last sound heard is the low drone fading.