Stillness.
Such maddening, stifling stillness.
A silence that hushes the world like a blanket.
The birds and insects quieted in daylight,
A thickness of the atmosphere that dulls
Even the whispers of the trees.
And then......
Roaring,
A wind the breath of a hundred demons,
An exhalation of victory and triumph,
A thunderous fanfare of the spirits of air;
And it started to rain.