POV: Olivia

All of a sudden, the world started rotating in a way that the world is not supposed to rotate, everything is moving through positions it does not normally occupy, glass and sound and the particular timelessness of a moment that is too large to experience at normal speed. I thought it would never stop moving, and then stillness. Everything stops moving in an angle that was wrong. The car stopped moving in a position it was not designed to occupy.

My hand automatically moved to my stomach on instinct. The movement is automatic, like a shield. Even before the pain registered, before the disorientation resolved, before anything, my...