Tricia saw Jamie out of the corner of her eye. For a split second, she disregarded the girl, but then realized that she had gone through the contents of her pocketbook. "No, Jamie!" she shouted as she jumped off the couch. "Put that down!"
But she was too late. Jamie had just pressed a number of buttons with her tiny hands. She must have been holding the remote backwards, because it ended up zapping her instead of Tricia. Jamie dropped the remote on the carpet and froze. She could feel something strange happening to her.