When Alfred Garland was thinking this, he was completely unaware that the normal reaction for most people upon hearing that a high school senior girl got into a fight and was taken to the police station would be to worry about whether the girl was injured.
Not him, though; he was not concerned about Nathalie Quinlan getting hurt, he was worried that she might not have controlled her strength and accidentally killed someone.
After all, anything could happen to Ms. Quinlan... absolutely anything!
Amadeus Yancey had a mixture of malice and concern in his chest. Hearing his baffled words, his mood brightened considerably, and he even felt like responding, "No, the other party broke three ribs and is still lying in the hospital."
"Only three ribs broken, not dead?" The response from Alfred Garland on the other end of the phone was a sigh of relief, feeling reassured, "Oh, that's good, that's good. I thought they were dead. As long as they're still breathing, that's fine."