The Figure Who Seems to Float Above It All
You have met someone like this. They sit in a room where everything is falling apart and they look, not calm exactly, absent. As if the fire is in a house they used to live in. They do not flinch. They do not grieve loudly. They answer questions in the same even register they would use to describe the weather. And you walk away from them feeling vaguely unsettled, though you cannot say why.
