They Let Me Bleed Out for My Sister's Show novel · Chapter 5 of 32

Chapter 5: The Practical

Thursday was my first field practical, and I was the only student on a crutch.

Twenty of us stood on the cold grass behind the Northmere training barn.

Rafe walked the line in his navy jacket with a clipboard, and he did not look at me any longer than he looked at anyone else.

I noticed anyway.

"Silver wound drill," he said. "Each of you gets a partner and a dummy with a punctured calf. You have four minutes to stop the bleed and clear the wound of splinters."

"Four minutes?" said the boy next to me.

"On a real call you get less."

My partner was a tall girl with a shaved head, who was also my roommate.

She had met me at the dorm door with two mugs of cocoa and an offer to hold the crutch while I climbed the stairs.

She had not asked me one question about the clinic.

On my other side stood a student with a clean white jacket and a sneer.

"I heard the Garrick girl is a Class Two," he said, not quietly. "Shouldn't she be doing paperwork?"

My roommate turned her head.

"Shouldn't you be doing less talking?" she said.

Rafe blew the whistle.

I dropped to my good knee in the wet grass and put my hands on the dummy's leg.

I knew this wound.

I knew where the silver would be, and how the flesh would pull away from the splinters, and how fast the blood would run.

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