No one had spoken for several minutes.
The room had become quiet, but not yet safe. The chair remained turned from where someone had stood up too quickly. A cup sat too near the edge of the table. One person looked at the window. Another looked at the place on the floor where nothing had fallen.
It would have been easy to call this peace, because the loud part had ended.
No one did.
The chair was still turned.
The cup was still too close to falling.
Too vivid - unsettling. I remember!