PLEASE, WAKE UP.

He would, she guessed, be going straight up to either Theatre or ICU. "Can you get someone to watch the twins and come here?

"I will call my parents.

Kylie looked up and saw that the light that meant there was an emergency in the radiology department was going off.

"Ask Lily to come in and watch them,' Kylie said, referring to Alora's neighbour. "Andy can drive you in Alora.'

She loathed leaving her friend hanging. She knew the panicked state she had placed her friend in, but there wasn't time to wait for Alora's parents. They were slow and annoying and would ask five hundred questions before they even started to reach for their car keys.

She rushed to the radiology department but the anaesthetist had arrived already and was intubating Migel

 "He's got a small subdural,' Ken explained. He started seizing and has just blown a pupil. We're going to race him up to Theatre.'