all afternoon suffocating - as if the air was solidified. later in the evening, stepping outside for a moment, i was startled that there was a wind. it had a palpable, almost magnetic feel to it. neither cold nor strong, and it didn't come hurling itself at you - but it was sinister in its controlled power, more like water than wind in my mind's eye. it made a noise - not the noise of leaves surging up a slope like an earth-risen army, or the noise of rain being flung down, but as if it was possessed of the wind alone - the sound suspended in the air - supernatural - anything might drop from the dark.