Nick stood there aghast as the series of events unfolded before him.  First the book and pillar beneath it crumbled into tiny pieces beneath his touch.  Then the woman shouting, then all of a sudden, the woman was falling right in front of him.  Hadn't she been across the room a moment ago?  How had she gotten so close without him realizing it?  This was all getting really freaky for Nick.   He made as if to grab the falling woman, but his hands only briefly delayed her fall before she slipped through his clutches.  

[@Love Dove]