During the room’s loss of pressure, Sarah kept quiet and waited tensely while the sergeant searched for the cause. But when one of the other soldiers collapsed, Sarah was already moving toward him even before Paige called for her.<br/><br/>The medic immediately feared the worst when she saw the damage to the helmet. With practiced efficiency she took her patient’s vitals, set up a med scanner, examined the injury where his skull had been punctured, and took an inventory of his symptoms. Selwood, by the name on his uniform, was conscious—but did not respond to her or even seem to see her, and despite his lips moving he was clearly aphasic.<br/><br/>“He’s having an intraparenchymal hemorrhage,” she reported to the NCO. “And it’s causing severe arrhythmia. He needs to go into surgery immediately, but I’m not allowed access to the ORs and I doubt there are a lot of other neurosurgeons on this—”<br/><br/>Sarah was interrupted when the med scanner started beeping—her patient was going into cardiac arrest. She performed CPR on him, and once she had a shockable rhythm she ripped open his uniform and started defib. After several jolts from the paddles he was again flat-lined, and this time there was nothing for it. “I’m sorry,” she said softly, shutting his eyes.