“When nobody came,” Lucas went on, because he needed to finish it now that he had begun, “I thought maybe I could find a guard.

So I walked down to the security gate.

But the little booth was empty.

There was nobody in it.

So I kept walking, to try to find help.

And it was really dark, and I fell down.” He looked at his hands.

“And then I saw car headlights.” It was at that point that Officer Torres stepped quietly into the trauma bay, and she did not have to say very much.

“A delivery driver found him, disoriented, near the main avenue,” she said.