“He’s in the lobby.”

“Then go and ask him,” Sarah Jenkins said, “because I have a symptomatic seven-year-old and I am about to put her in a truck, and the receiving hospital is going to ask me what she took, and right now my answer is a shrug.”

Part Seven: The Backpack

We went out into the lobby, all three of us — Reyes, me, and Sarah Jenkins in her jacket with her clipboard.

Douglas Sinclair stood up.

“Dr.