I said I saw these things in order, but the truth is that the causality of the room had been rewired. The order blurred because the "Narration" Verse had suffered a logic error. My eyes registered the rotation, the fragmentation, and the resolution all at once, but the timing was wrong. The strike seemed to complete itself on a sentence where a person should have been, rather than against a physical body. It was like reading a paragraph where the subject has been deleted, leaving only the predicate to crash into the margin.
