I hurried to provide Helen all the assistance she needed, silently and without error. I felt a familiar calm come over me, the kind that came with a detachment. Later, when I had tome to actually think about all of this, I may fall to pieces, but for now, there was only the work.

"Do you need to re-stitch the wounds? I was in such a hurry they may be a mess, Doctor. I can get the suture kits, I know where they are."