The relay was four hundred meters divided into four legs of one hundred meters, which was a description that ignored everything. Kemi ran the first leg because she was fastest off the block, not because she was fastest overall, which she was not. She ran fast and passed the baton to Deja, who received it running and did not look at it. Deja's job was to not think about the baton. By the third leg the race had separated into two races: the race between the other teams and the race within this team, which was the race to get the baton to Anisa in time. Tandy ran the third leg in the bad lane, the lane with the turn that widened, and she ran it the only way she knew how to run it, which was the same way she ran anything, with her head slightly down and her arms higher than the coaches wanted. The coaches had stopped trying to fix her arms. Anisa received the baton at position six of eight, which was a position she had never won a race from, but she ran the last hundred meters the way she ran all last legs, which was as if the other seven runners were not something she needed to consider. She finished second. The four of them stood in their lanes for a moment, not quite ready to collapse the race back into four separate people, before one of them walked over and the moment ended.