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Calamity

Chapter 2

“Okay, we’ve got a pulse!  Maintain pressure on the wound.  Let’s get her on the gurney!  On three! One – Two – Three!  Move back people!  Make a way!  Let’s get her to the hospital, N-O-W!”

If you were filming a disaster scene, this was it.  People are walking around as if in a daze.  A bullet riddled body slumped over the defense table, a body in the back sprawled on a bench with a bullet in its head and a bench in the middle with blood still dripping from its seat.

How does anyone make sense of this?  Even if you are not physically injured how do you erase this carnage from your mind?  And even if you don’t know the parties involved you have to feel some kind of compassion for those who do, feel something for those who have lost a loved one and for those who will wait anxiously for word on the condition of the one who was wheeled away by the paramedics.  A part of her remains here.  Her blood, oh my word, so much blood, remains behind here in this courtroom.

A/N:  I know, I know that it is a short chapter but the intensity of it ...