Tilde Colon hates her name and the two English Majors who gave it to her: her parents. She seems an incomplete person, totally absorbed in herself, but dismissive and judgmental about other people in her environment: she is a high school student, fifteen years old...and a loner. No, wait, she has just made an acquaintance, a boy named Jake - Jacob White - who is as much a misfit as she is.

What makes a young perople with promising futures embrace an ideal as destructive, vicious, and final as a school shooting? For that is what Tilde and Jake talk about incessently...that, and how much they despise their fellow students and teachers.

They are both so normal in appearance as to be invisible. Neither of them has a distinguishing feature; they are drab and dress in a shabby goth style. Black. They wear black.

When Tilde gets impatient with just talking, she steers Jake toward acquiring the hardware they are going to need to carry out their vengeance on an uncaring world. He has means; Tilde provides the motive. Together they create an opportunity...