This rock had just split, and the sound of its cracking would travel around the world.
*
Sidney Grimm’s flight had just landed in New York. As she switched on her mobile, she could hear the familiar trill of a received message.
She looked at it and immediately drew her mouth into a smile. Although she suffered the heavy pangs of jealousy when she’d taken the plane in Paris, she still felt that the Master loved her.
How can he love that emotionally dead, weak larva, when there is a healthy and magically perfect girl like me? she thought.
She sat in the taxi, humming. The driver noticed, asking why she was in such a good mood.
“Because life is beautiful,” the honest truth escaped her so quickly that she was surprised by her answer as well.
“True. Sometimes the sun shines on us through
