Something bigger

What had happened?
Eddie still wasn't able to understand it.
It all had been so fast, faster than that first earthquake, faster than the tsunami, faster even than the despair that had filled him with dread when he had discovered that the son he had been waiting for months (his whole life, it seemed) was going to suffer from a permanent condition that would have impaired him forever. Faster even than the moment in which his whole team was shot down from the sky.
One moment, he had a support system in place, a person always by his side who had his back through thick and thin and loved his son as if he was his own, and the next...the next he was alone, lost and still trying to wrap his mind around why.