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Rylann waved off such pesky details “I’ll throw a e of Law therives al credentials and real searches and seizures”

“Wow Do you kno big of a law school geek you just sounded like?”

Unfortunately, she did “Do you think any of us will ever be norain?”

Rae considered this “I’e to cite the Constitution in everyday conversation”

“That’s pro,” Rylann said

“But seeing how you’re er”

“Re to miss you this summer? I take it back”

Rae laughed and slung her ar to be so bored here without me”

Rylann was overco of sentimentality Now that finals were over, Rae and nearly all their law school friends were heading back ho double shifts at a bartending job that sounded glah money to cover nearly a year of tuition Rylann, on the other hand, had scored a summer law internship with the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of Illinois While the internship was a prestigious and coveted position a first-years—she would be paid at the not-so-glamorous GS-5 salary, which would earn her littleexpenses for the sual, she’d have enough left over for next ses were expensive

But despite the es, she was thrilled about the internship Asto law school for theon having plans—and her suraduation, she hoped to land a clerkship with a federal judge, and then she’d apply to the US Attorney’s Office

Although many law students had no clue what type of law they wanted to practice after graduation, this was not the case with Rylann She’d known since she was ten that she wanted to become a criminal prosecutor and had never wavered in that, despite the lure oflaw firation see Coo on for years without anyone giving a damn except for the lawyers who billed three thousand hours a year working on it No thank you

Rylann wanted to be in court every day, in the thick of things, trying cases thatAnd in hercriminals behind bars