They Made Me Wait in the ER While Prioritizing a Wedding Until Everything Started to Unravel

unless you knew precisely where it was. Inside: the device. Small, flat, cold. One-time use. Given with a single instruction: if everything goes wrong, this is your last call.

I pressed the button.

It cracked rather than clicked, designed to break under sufficient pressure and trigger the internal mechanism. I felt it give. Signal sent. Somewhere far continue reading …