After a couple of laps, the onboard map beeped in warning, yanking Charlie out of his reverie.

Vera noticed too, disappointment briefly showing in her eyes, just as she understood why they always said beauty was in the eye of the beholder.

If time could pause at that moment forever, she would even feel that the universe was born for this very moment.

But time doesn't stop, just as she understood that she was not the protagonist of the infinite universe—all she amounted to was insignificant du