Chapter 5: IncidentLaurie couldn’t work out why he was on the ground. He’d been in the top field working with the two dogs to get the sheep into the holding pen before running them through the dip. Now he was on the patchy grass looking up through the branches of the chestnut, the leaves edged with the rich brown of approaching autumn. Jimmy was bending over him.
“The ambulance is coming lad, don’t panic,” he said, his soft country tones familiar and reassuring. “Paul ran across to the cottages and rang them as soon as it happened, they said about half an hour and it’s been nearly that now.”
“What happened?” Laurie tried to say, but he heard himself saying “Whhhhh?” and couldn’t articulate any more. He tried to sit up, but his left arm wouldn’t move to support him.
Jimmy put a hand on h
