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Two Minutes Out of Step
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Mara looked for an off switch and found a big red button under a plastic cover. A label warned: 'Hard stop locks the time gap in place.' Hit it now and they'd be frozen two minutes apart forever. She needed the gap at zero first, not just stopped.
Mara panicked and slammed the red button anyway. The coil locked with a heavy clunk. The screen froze at 2:00 and would not move. The machine was safe now, totally stable, and so was the gap. Forever. Mara would always live two minutes ahead of her little sister.
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