FEAR!

A jolt hit her stomach like a rock plunging into a lake.  She was almost bend over.  More than a ripple effect.  Then the tingling began leap frogging across her abdomen. 

FEAR!

Beth had felt impending doom before but nothing like this.  For nights she hadn't had quality sleep. The bangs under her eyes needed more than cucumber slices to remove them this time.

"She's two feet on the ground.  Solid as a rock.  A willow with such bendability.  She always rights herself," Jackie said. 

Even Jackie knew something was up when Beth passed up those tiny chocolate cups at the Galley Restaurant, the kind with the peanut butter, crunch of course, on the bottom.  She just wanted home. 

The air was more than stagnant as were the people.  No one was sleeping well.  Tossing and turning with endless thoughts of things that they hadn't done well in the past.  Cold, sweaty kind of nights. Almost like judgment day.  But who was to judge them?  They had done enough of that themselves.

First it was the piezo-electric effect.  She'd measured the Santa Cruz quake by the electricity down her leg.  Then it was the change in the electromagnetic fields.  Suddenly she was making connections to people in her environmental field.  Everything was opening for her. The portals were wide. 

So were her fears.

"They're coming."

Her abdominal chakra always told the truth. 

They were coming.