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He comes to on a stretcher.

Edgar Ball is looking down at him, eyes wide.

There’s dirt smeared on his cheeks and forehead.

He’s saying something, it might be hang in there buddy, and then the stretcher bumps something and the pain explodes, the pain becomes the world.

Danny tries to scream and can only moan.

For a moment there’s sky, then a roof above him and he thinks it might be an ambulance, how’d it get here so fast, how long was I out.

Someone says “Little pinch and then you’ll feel better.”

There’s a pinch.

Darkness follows.