"He cut himself, that's what he did. I need you to watch his... his..." Words failed me for a moment and I forced myself to take a deep breath as I pulled the suture kit and bandages out of the bag. I had been on battlefields before, this was no different. I needed to calm myself as best I could. "Watch his heart-beat. I need to try and get some stitches in him so that we can buy ourselves more time to get him to the clinic."

Once there, I could pass him off to one of the fully trained physicians, I knew all the rudiments, but was not one of them yet. I knew once the stitches were in, I needed to loosen the tourniquets for a moment, lest the blood in his arms go completely cold. I also knew that if he lost too much more blood, his heart would still. "He will need fluids in his body soon, but I fear it's too far and he will bleed to much if I do not do something here."