She was very remote. Clare pulled herself together.
"When the first explosion came it didn't touch us. But I guess she
knew it meant more. She said something about the telephone and
getting help and there'd be more, and she started to run. I just
stood there, watching her run, and waiting. And then the second
one came, and - "
Suddenly Clare seemed to disappear altogether. He felt something
catch his arm, and the nurse's voice, very calm and quiet:
"Sit down. I'll get you something."
Then he was swallowing a fluid that burned his throat, and Clare
was crying with the sheet drawn to her mouth, and somewhere
Audrey -
He got up, and the nurse followed him out.
"You might look for the person here," she suggested. "We have had
several brought in."
He was still dazed, but he followed her docilely. Audrey was not
there. He seemed to have known that, too. That there would be a
long search, and hours of agony, and at the end - the one thing he
did not know was what was to be at the end.
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