The Fallacy

They came and got me," he told her as his eyes raised to meet hers, his body shuddering with the memory, "and they began to drag me down;" not into the earth he told her; just, just down, there was no earth he added confusedly, just a direction; a direction of down.She had sat opposite watching and listening to him talk; concentrating only on hearing him, but now he sat in silence again, his confusing story sitting alone without an end, dragged down into nothing with the dreadful creatures that took it there."Where did they drag you too David," she ventured softly to kill the silence that hung thick in the air.