Dr. Earl, as he liked to be addressed whenever he stepped into the medic bay had never been so busy. The number of patients with burns and broken bones was quite high. The fortress did not have enough doctors to tend to everyone at the same time, and this was why he had risked the wrath of his parents and gone out to help.
He was too busy treating others that he dismissed the trembling in his hands with strange warmth and the fast pumping of his blood as if he had been got an adrenaline shot. The smart medical phone his mother had given him as acted as a guide, sharing insights and giving directions like a teacher standing over his shoulder.
He finished wrapping gauze around the arm of an old woman and immediately set his eyes on his next patient.
