Robert's bruised body lay still on the gurney, his chest barely rising and falling with each shallow breath. The fluorescent lights above the emergency ward made little leeway in mercy, now shedding light on the chaos around him.
Medical people buzzed around him, their faces set with urgency. His clothes, saturated with blood, were stuck to his frame; the antiseptic smell of the hospital filled his nose. The beeping of machines and mumbling of conversations blended into a din of sound.
His gaze dropped to his entangled and twisted legs, contorted in ways they shouldn't be. Agony wracked through him like a wave, and he felt its tide threaten to reach over him and smother him. His head spun, and disjointed flashes of the accident replayed themselves in his mind.
The doctors and nurses wor
