Right Foot, Left Foot

You walked into the party
Like you were walking into a yatch.
- Carly Simon, "You're so Vain"

She discovers she is alone when she wakes up. The walls come closer to shrink the room. No, no, no, she whimpers. She looks around hoping to be dreaming and cries some more when she realizes that she's not.

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She walks into the room trying to keep her balance. Right foot, left foot -- it's called walking. Everyone is watching her. She keeps walking. The crowd moves closer to her forming a wall.

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She experiments. If she stamps hard enough the floor make a two-mile wave. She keeps stamping, trying to see how much pressure she should apply to create a wave that would reach the other side of the world -- a wave that would, by principle, go around and hit her in the back. She keeps trying. She thinks the waves are getting bigger. But no. She realizes with some disbelief that she's shrinking.