Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow.

“I was thinking that maybe, by this point, I liked it better broken.”

“That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happe…”

“He handed me a bandana. "Tie that on.""Why?" I said, but I did it anyway. "Norm…”

“Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. …”