Paramedics entered through the gate carrying equipment.

They worked with deliberate care while another officer moved Garrett toward the front of the property.

Loretta kept insisting that she was an elderly woman who had done nothing wrong.

Delia’s crying had stopped; she was watching every motion of the paramedics with an expression I had never seen on her before.

Fear.

The emergency crew took time to free me without adding to my injuries.

Every minute seemed to last forever.