I came to confusion laying face down, foam boiling down my chin. My torso! It’s ripped open! I flushed hands against my belly and traced only smooth, Continuous skin. I guzzled in oxygen, worming, & peered about. I was in a gray-green, concrete bunker. Phew… back at Gutter's Gunshop in one piece. Wait.
Gutt! My head snapped across my chest wildly. He was standing there, back hunched away from me, weapons in the bundle. I was about to close my eyes and thank our watchful stars, when I felt a presence stirring behind me. I only had a general notion of what it was, but it sounded BIG. Danger was still hot on our heels.
“Get down!” I commanded.
I don’t know why Gut listened; I guess because he’d been raised taking militant orders. But he recognized and trusted my voice. It saved his life.