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Two Minutes Out of Step
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Out in the hallway, Mara saw the building's main breaker box. Cut the power and the coil would die. But she was four minutes ahead now, and she couldn't warn Ines in time. If the machine stopped wrong, Ines might be stuck lagging forever. Mara's hand hovered over the switch.
Mara threw the breaker. Every light died and the coil went silent. But with no power and no warning, the field collapsed unevenly. When Mara found Ines in the dark, her sister was still moving two minutes slow, locked there now. The machine was off, but the gap had set like cement.
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