“Sir, no one at the house… but you need to see this, Sir.”
“Roger that. I’m on my way.”
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At the hospital, Kevin’s father stood tensely in the rain-stained lobby, watching police and firefighters pick their careful way across the buckled, cracked ground.
One of the officers called out, voice cautious:
> “Please don’t be afraid—come out now!”
Another whistled low as he surveyed the massive fissures.
> “What the hell did this? Earthquake?”
His partner snorted.
> “An earthquake here in Nigeria? That’s like diamonds falling from the sky.”
“Really? That again? Don’t you believe it’s possible?”
“Mm-hm.” He rolled his eyes and leapt over one of the cracks.
Kevin’s father gently guided his wife and the other survivors out.
> “Come on. We’re safe now.”
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