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A few moments later and the sound of the vehicle's engine would vanish. A car door would open and slam. A man walked through the rubble and finally stepped far enough out of the shrouded darkness and close enough to Re'Altarm that she could see him. He scrambled forward to her. "Are you okay?", he said in a loud but calm voice and then leaned over her to place his right ear to hover over her nose and mouth while looking down the plane of her body. She was breathing and if she was breathing she had a pulse.

He did not need to see her wounds to know she was bleeding and bad. He cursed once and quickly scrambled back to his car. There was the sound of a trunk being opened and then slammed shut. He returned in haste with a large orange and black duffel bag marked with red crosses. It was then that he shined a bit of light on the situation. He placed the lit penlight in his mouth. His right eye was shut tight but his left scanned across her body as he moved his head and the beam of light. "Relax. Easy. Don't move." As he worked to stop the bleeding he asked her basic questions such as her age and her name.

Her right arm was so badly mangled that it required a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. After he had fashioned the device he haulted the bleeding at her shoulder. He then crossed her brow with her own blood in two strokes to form a 'T' more out of years of training than out of necessity in this instance. He un-pocketed his cell phone and hit a single key as he continued to evaluate her. "Yeah. Get me Barnes and Torres." There was a pause in his conversation as he took a closer look at her arm and the bones jutting out of it and through the dressing he had attempted to use to stop the bleeding before he applied the tourniquet. "I need you and Torres to meet me in the Quarter." There was another pause. "Use the car's Lojack." Then another short pause. "Bring a back board." One more pause. "Yep. Hurry up."

He pocketed the phone again and reached into the pack to take out some formable braces. A few seconds later and he was working to secure her right arm and the broken bits of bone that it had become. During the whole ordeal he continued to speak encouraging words.