Any concern about cave contamination evaporated in that instant. Kelsey screamed and rushed to his side.
Chris and I yelled simultaneously, “Don’t touch him!”
Kelsey had already laid her hands on her father’s face and jerked them back in response. Chris explained, “We need to get his neck stabilized and we need to get him out of here on a spine board.”
Captain Croitoru was already on his phone.
Frank was the most stoic of us all. Perhaps he was the only one of us who had not harbored doubts about Kadeya and her memories. He dropped down prone beside Cortell and was shining his light on the mastoid. “It’s bleeding a little bit, but it looks very superficial.”
“So why is he unconscious?” Kelsey asked almost hysterically.
Croitoru called in, “An ambulance is coming. The Prioress has gon
