The minute Christina saw Byron and Lucy in the corridor, she inched closer to the edge.
“Whoa,” Byron cried. “Calm down. Let’s talk. You don’t want to do this…”
Christina laughed but the sound that came out of her mouth was more like that of a frightened loon than any sound that a human being might make. “You want to help me,” she cried. “How convenient. It is as you said; there is nothing more for us to talk about. I only called you here so that you could finally understand the universal law of cause and effect!”
“Christina,” Lucy interjected, “can you tell me what you really want? You could have jumped already. Tell me why you are stalling. It is my hope that it is because a part of you still wants to live. Surely, you didn’t call me and Byron here just to scold us. There must be a de
