Erik stood, his nose not three inches from the window, looking east toward the fountain. Suddenly, in the nanosecond it takes to blink an eye, time froze as a man plummeting at a hundred miles per hour and Erik made solid eye contact. The next nanosecond tick of the clock brought the sudden shotgun sound of his body hitting the ground, exploding as it went from a hundred miles per hour to instant zero. His bodily fluids sprayed in every direction; fresh blood flowed down the window.
