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“Where are you exactly?” he asked, sounding much more alert and oriented

I gave hi to have to put the phone into hold onto the flashlight, too”

Linc didn’t squabble with reed “Just keep me on the line”

I did, shoving the phone into my front scrub pocket while I inched my way down

Finally, I hit the bottom and winced when my feet sank down a couple inches into the mud

Ignoring the way that they squelched as I ht in shallow arcs again, pausing briefly on what looked like a snake about eight feet away from me

Fear cliht away fro when I found a bare foot

I followed that bare foot up,when I saw the body attached to it

The guy was big Really big And he looked like he was in really bad shape

He wasn’tat the light

“Oh, God,” Itoward him

The water slogged around , but all I could see was that ed by the saate

The moment I reached him, I pulled my phone out of my pocket and placed it to my ear “Linc, there’s a man down here, I found him Hurry”

With that, I put the phone back intothe man like the trained ER nurse I was

I set the light down on the large boulder that was next to the ht, and started cataloging the injuries

He for sure had a broken ulna I could see the white bone sticking out of his arm

He had a nasty gash on his face that was pouring blood, but his pulse was strong

“Broken arash on ’s i me so that I can’t move”

I looked up to find the man’s eyes on me

“You’re trained?” I asked, bending over him to see about the impalement

He was right

He had what looked to be a piece of rebar sticking out of his side, i his flesh about six inches above his hip bone

“Holy shit,” I breathed

Then the sirens started to sound

“Glad you found me,” the man said

I was, too