BROKEN WING, BROKEN CAGE

, how are

all right. Is e

We're just waiting

d raining, so I'm not driving too fast. I can see from my

We're all wa

her car's dashboard, as she contin

ust had to check the final placements and positions of the artworks, confirm that the arrangements w

r phone clipped beside the steering wheel, navigatio

harp bend, she was startled by a car

full speed, way too fast for a be

ar suddenly came at her, s

the left. The oncoming driver also swerved, but in the panic of the situati

MC truck and was thrown across the road, tumbling three times bef

he dislodged back seat and the airbag from the s

silver GMC truck opened slowly

r was still on, in full force, illuminating Karen'

ibly broken. The driver from the GMC truck, approached Karen's vehicle, fumbli

om side to side from the impact and the shock of the ac

w a mass of tangled brown hair matted w

ood on the car, the d

ble to do so. The pain from the accident ripped through his body, slowing

emergency number, his blue eyes squinting from pain. He knew something was broken but he didn't kn

at evening and the weather was cool, but the man was sweating pr

e index and middle fingers of his left hand on her neck to check f

t a crazed panic rising within him. He pulled his h

moment, he suddenly felt it and sighed with relief, there it is, he thoug

ide, waiting for the ambulance to arrive, his right arm cradled in h

es and gurneys. Karen was surrounded by two doctors and three nurses, and the

into an operating room, stat!" yelled one o

urrying off to the intercom to boo

and then his attention rested on Karen on the gurney. He rem

call for the operating room said as

ey all rushed Karen out of the emer

you know where the room is. For now, hold on while I have a doctor look at this arm," she said in a gentle, ma

stopped bleeding. It was a sur

eady commented to him that he was lucky to get

reflected on what he had heard the doct

m was in danger of being amputated, and several ribs had been broken. There

I goin

oing to do? The man