The woman's dead, but she takes an automatic step forward, anyway, years of training to check for breathing, for a pulse, call an ambulance...
But there is no ambulance, and that woman is dead, she knows it. There's one sensible thing she could do here and after standing stock still for a time that feels impossibly long, she shakes herself into looking about for a comm unit.
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Date: 2006-10-24 09:57 pm (UTC)She's dead.
The woman's dead, but she takes an automatic step forward, anyway, years of training to check for breathing, for a pulse, call an ambulance...
But there is no ambulance, and that woman is dead, she knows it. There's one sensible thing she could do here and after standing stock still for a time that feels impossibly long, she shakes herself into looking about for a comm unit.
There's one inside her room.