Sentence:  He held her hands till the quake subsided but then it was I who went seismic, as if it had rippled all that distance to me, and with his hands still on hers he led her through a cue-up and <WSD>countup</WSD> and this time when the needle released from their doubled fingers it bedded into the groove as if it had been made just for this moment and slipped right into the arms of the storm riders throatily riding the unpredictable weather like shimmer children in an echoing wasteland. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Enumeration; the act of counting until a criterion is reached.