That Second....

......the time stopped. Everything around him ceased to exist. He found himself thrown off the space-time continuum, floating away into the unknown. All the banter and cacophony around him that he was striving so hard to run away from became the vacuum of reverberating silence, a silence so deafening, he found it impossible to shun it.

He went white, the blood suddenly dried up in his veins and he could feel the drops of perspiration trickle down the contours of his forehead. His hands were trembling and numbness was slowly taking over his body. He felt he was choking. The few words that did manage to make their way through seemed like scattered pieces of an unconceivable jigsaw.

A minute later, he collapsed.