seething

the challenger stood taking a deep breath ignoring the height and width of it as happenstance and circumstance seemed more like pure chance while the words being said detailed the stories of pride and love and rising above the conditions like all the rest had done before as the crowd roared and rose to its feet that seething and restless generation who couldn't or wouldn't compete but instead searched in the darkness as the ravenous hordes went forth and claimed some places as their own and moved forward toward an untowardly event because “the adults in the room” had put hunger and gloom on the menu and the soon to be shuttered venues could no longer turn a profit and no one could stop it