I would have been the only one there to answer to him, to swallow his fury like gulps of seawater and pray I didn’t spit them back up again until he had stormed out of my room and slammed the door shut behind him.
That’s an unusual and interesting sentence. It's more for aesthetic’s sake than it makes narrative sense, though, I think. Like, what does it *mean?* That she tried not to talk back?
