The center span of the Causeway had become a ball of white light hurling 
its marbled shroud of cold dark matter into the night. The sphere expanded 
until it seemed to occupy most of the interval between New Chusan and the 
Pudong shoreline, though by this time the color had deepened from white into 
reddish-orange, and the explosion had punched a sizable crater into the water, 
which developed into a circular wave of steam and spray that ran effortlessly 
across the ocean's surface like the arc of light cast by a pocket torch.