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

he was moving and because the answer was already in the movement.

I woke in a room that was quiet in the intentional way of secure medical facilities. Steady monitors. Clean bandages. IV lines in both arms. Two men near the door, not for my comfort but for my protection.

I did not ask questions. I let memory reassemble itself in pieces.

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