Victory did not really look like what Lynda used to picture, did it? It was not loud, it did not shimmer, and there was no applause when it arrived. Actually, it showed up quietly, only after everything extra had been stripped away.

Two weeks had passed since the collapse, and the world had already moved along. No headlines. No rumors. No one was watching. People only care about the rise, never the correction; is not that always the way?

There she was, sitting in her apartment, the same cramped ...