The rain poured into the hole from the opening. Katie had the wherewithal to lodge the bucket between the lip and the door, leaving a crack in the surface.
She let out a first laugh of success, but the second one didn’t have a chance to come. The cot slipped from underneath Ray and Katie fell backward, hard. She had much further to fall and Ray could’ve mistaken the crack of her ulna for another crash of thunder from above. She let out a howl that was covered by the sound of rain.
Huddled in the growing puddle of water and piss, the tears streaked down her face as she clenched her teeth. Ray could see that the bone was jutting up through the skin of her forearm. It was a nasty compound fracture. Now they really needed to get out of there. A doctor was going to have to splint and reset th
