If they’re little wriggly sparkles against the sky, it’s not floaters, it’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon

Floaters are darkish blobs.

I thought I could see atoms!

It wasn’t until I was an adult that I learned I was seeing the white blood cells in my retina’s capillaries

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon

Cholera, mostly, but also violence. It says they were turned away from getting help because the locals feared contagion, so perhaps that’s some of the violence. They also made practically no money but had a generous whiskey allotment, which would likely contribute to violence. They were working on Duffy’s Cut for some time, and the mass grave has been described as a garbage dump for bodies, not like they were lined up and shot or something, not that it makes it any better. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/irelands-forgotten-sons-recovered-two-centuries-later-9194680/

Im sure that’s just mechanical but it reads as something more painful and possibly deadly

I did this with my new daybed: tucked/taped the instructions, key and extra screwthingies under the mattress, so if it’s ever moved or sold they’ll be visible as soon as you take off the mattress to start.

If you can do as well, you should sign it too!