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Rick Lewis's avatar

"...as it was perfectly normal to put himself together on everyone else’s time. “The issue before the court today is a simple one…” he began. Each word was uttered carefully, each sentence landed with precision. His pitch was a near baritone, his cadence at half his normal. With his slow deliberateness, he knitted an invisible blanket of calm for the room."

This is so vivid and evocative of your closing line, "Calm people calm people." I like the message but this character description alone was worth the read.

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Charu Gupta's avatar

Wow, what a read. Initial para built the suspense, I thought I am in for a court-trial. But then you effortlessly redirected the attention to the soothing-seething. the word play of calmness made me smile. Very clever. By the end, i forgot about court-trial and more interested in calming down.

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