We’re waiting for the lightning, aren’t we?
The lightning – of course!
All we can do is wait. While the charge builds up.
Can you feel it? Can you feel it, charging? Can you feel the forcefield?
One day, you’ll just say something especially stupid and the lightning will strike.
Is that what will happen?
The sky will just protest. The whole of being will cry out. And lightning will strike.
A crack – that’s what Fiver said. A crack, running through the campus.
The lighting will open a crack in the campus. Ike a crevasse in a glacier. And it will be so deep that …
That what?
That the campus will become unusable. That the campus will have been put out of use.
Because of our stupidity?
Because of Shiva’s, mostly.
Think of the crack that’s going to open. The whole campus, tearing apart. Like tectonic plates splitting. Hot lava frothing up. Like the mid-Atlantic ridge, or whatever. Drama. The whole campus being swallowed.
And that would happen because we’re so stupid?
So is the lightning finally going to strike? Have we reached peak idiocy? The summit of Mount Stupidity?
Is the tension at its maximum? Can you hear a rumbling? Does rumbling come before lightning?
Isn’t the campus supposed to crack in two? Crack, campus, crack!
Maybe it’s a spiritual crack. A figurative crack. And the lightning’s figurative lightning.
A change in the Zeitgeist. Or the Ortgeist. A spiritual tearing open. That’s not as good as an actual tearing open.
A crack? A crack will run through everything. Through the plaza. All the buildings.
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