Time was moving fast, with no thought for anyone or anything.

She sat, an anonymous face amongst hundreds of commuters, her heart beating like the train pulling into the station. 

There was nothing she could do, exhaustion and fatigue not only lined her features, but incapacitated her tense muscles too, she couldn’t move and they were coming. Another glance at the clock and time was up, and from the corners of her eyes she could see them coming, like wasps swarming.

She rolled the capsule under her tongue, licked her lips, and moved the pill between her teeth; time was gone…and she bit down hard.