Identifies bomber

The next patient and the paramedic pushing them were coming through, and I stiffened.

 

This patient wasn’t one of the ones I’d saved, and I hadn’t seen him in the crowd of the first floor wounded. By itself, that wouldn’t have meant much. But there was a nervousness about the paramedic that was entirely wrong; he was practically sweating bullets, and although he was trying to hide it, he seemed to be terrified. I could smell explosive residue as well.

 

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Slowing