not the square of light that lay almost dead center on the bedspread at one o'clock and not the rectangle which lay on it at two ; this was a wide band that would soon narrow to a stripe , and although a power outage had buggered the readout of the digital clock-radio on the dresser ( it flashed 12:00 a.m. over and over , as relentless as a neon barsign ) , the band of light told her it was going on four o'clock .