[Swirling is for people who want to enjoy it and Rosinante is just here to get drunk, so he's very much doing the same as Kuai. He doesn't quite have his brother's drinking habit, his own usual vice being the nicotine instead, but when he decides it's time to get wasted, he doesn't waste time.]

They were swatted out of the sky by something neither I nor they even saw. Stone said it hit him in the back of the head and sent him plummeting straight down. They hit the water so fast and so hard they probably didn't even feel it.

[So at least there's that. Aside from that initial strike and the terrifying drop, it was quick and painless, and that's better than some things people have experienced here.]