SEP-010, Chapter 15.

Constitution.

Five seconds.

The timer ticked down passionlessly . . . mercilessly . . . mechanically. Five seconds existed between then and now, and for all of the thirty two years Jamie Cunningham had been alive in the universe, she could now remember scarcely too few years. Barbie and her plastic pink Camaro in her bedroom. Her parents fighting down the hall. Their divorce. Her first kiss. High school, and all of its turbulence...