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applause, believe, calm, deep-throated, echo, eye-contact, flow, footsteps, fright, gaze, impending, instincts, intently, luck, palms, pictures, qualms, quotes, relieved, reluctant, silence, stage, storm, sweaty, tension, voice, words
Pin drop silence
The calm before the impending storm
Luck has never been in her favour
Even then her instincts told her to be braver
A deep-throated voice booms out her name
The dreaded moment has come
She hears the echo of her footsteps
As she clutches the mike with sweaty palms
And growing qualms
A hundred pairs of eyes gaze at her
Some intently
Others curiously
With a deep breath
She finally utters her first words
The tension built inside, evaporates
The reluctance to make eye-contact fades
The words seem to flow smoothly
And with certainty
It ends within minutes
Followed by thunderous applause
She walks away with her head held high
Relieved, this too had passed by.
