that instant lasted not even a heart beat , not even one of her now racing heart beats , her heart suddenly in on the news and instantly desperate to escape , thrashing around like someone bound and doused with gasoline and now on fire , trying to relieve itself of flesh and chest and skin ; for not even one of those rapid-fire heart beats did that just right temperature last , for in that one racing beat the flame soared to inferno , a loud thing now to her ears that she tried to but could not escape for she was it .