Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another
- Homer
Silence.... Dead calm....soundlessness....the absence of sound. All words described the effect of the timer on the innumerable sea of heads that stood in Louhia. The air was filled with painful anticipation. No human dared move or speak. Their breath had been taken away. Their eyes stared at the timer as it blinked red and suddenly, disappeared. Marnowac lifted his fingers to the air and the sound of fingers snapping broke the atmosphere of tranquillity.
