Each stem was wrenched at the root, where it moved like a bone in its socket, and at every onset of the gale convulsive sounds came from the branches, as if pain were felt.
Where there should have been eyes, there was only thin, gray scabbed skin, stretched blankly over empty sockets. But there was a mouth...a gaping, shapeless hole, sucking the air with the sound of a death rattle.
Its rapid expansion actually forces the fish's stomach out of its mouth, while the increased internal pressure pushes its eyes out of their sockets, a condition called exophthalmia.