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Saga checked her watch again—she’d made it almost exactly when she’d said, giving herself an entire half hour before Mr. Bowen had set to leave.

She headed up the stoop and inside to a small foyer, which held two mailboxes: one for Bowen somewhere she was aware of her body crumpling on the carpet.

She couldn’t tell if she was breathing, and the light was dimming to a small pinprick of color.

She tried desperately to will that pin to grow again, for her consciousness to fight to stay present.

It was a losing battle, and the world went black.

62 If you are in a position where you must stab someone in the skull, it would be helpful to know the forehead is not the optimal target. The thinnest part of the cranial vault is the temporal region of our ears. The bone is about 4 millimeters thick.

It takes about 540 newtons (approx. 121 pounds of force) to penetrate the skull in the forehead, whereas the temporal region takes roughly 255 (57 pounds of force).

If you ever find yourself overcrowded at a dinner party, sharing this fact should give you the space you desire.