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That was more useful.
How to seal a corridor.
How to read evacuation lights.
How to call medical without saying “someone is hurt” and expecting that to be enough.
How to use triage tags.
Red.
Yellow.
Green.
Black.
I hated black.
“How do I know?” I asked Nora.
“You don’t always.”
“That’s not helpful.”
“It’s true.”
She showed me the scanner.
“Your job is not diagnosis. Airway. Bleeding. Consciousness. Mobility. Tag and move.”
“What if I’m wrong?”
“You will be sometimes.”
I stared.
Nora touched my shoulder.
“Harper, emergency systems are not about being perfect. They are about being useful before perfect becomes possible.”
I hated that.
Also needed it.
Scarlet finished weapons training and joined us.
“What’d I miss?”
“Harper discovering medicine is unfair.”
“I already knew that.”
We ran evacuation drills.
I forgot a comm code.
Scarlet forgot a medical color.
