"Sleepless" Prelude: "New Decade's Eve"

“What is this feeling?” I thought.

I knew the flashing lights to come, the shouting down from the count of 10 til the stroke of Midnight. I knew the raw, mathematical sum of energy itself. This was the part that had not changed. There was intensity on that night again, the same intensity I knew on the equivalent night two years prior. I was going to be …