It begins not with a bang, but with a quiet tremor, a subtle shift in the tectonic plates of your world. I don't feel it at first, not really. The pain will come later, a tidal wave that has been gathering strength miles offshore. At first, there is only the eerie calm of disbelief. A strange lightness fills me, a suspension of gravity, as if the world has tilted on its axis without warning, and my mind is still waiting for the memo. No. The word is not a thought; it is an in