Amy went around and dusted off the furniture and put the beds back together so that everyone had a comfortable place to sleep for the night. Seth and Laura shared Laura’s old bed, Amy slept in Zahara’s bed, and Matthew was relegated to the couch. George remained on the floor in the living room, unconscious. Laura got up several times during the night to check on the big man, pressing her fingers into his neck to feel the throb of his pulse.
In the morning, she fished out a saline drip from her seemingly endless Mary Poppin’s box of supplies. While she started the IV, Amy cooked packets of strawberries and cream-flavored instant oatmeal on the little camp stove. Seth had to force a bowl of the hot porridge into Laura’s hands.
“What’s next?” he asked quietly.
She stared down at t
