Cora POV
Paul looked like he didn't suffer.
You never really know, to be honest.
Science says that your brain keeps going, and you're hearing, after death, but how can you really prove it? Like God and faith, it's not tactile, so it's all hearsay. Some patients come out of long comas and say they heard the people around them, others say they heard nothing. I want to think that, in this instance, he didn't suffer only a brief moment of panic when he knew he couldn't avoid the collision, but that it lasted only microseconds.
The other two are still in surgery and will be for a while.
I don't remember the ride home. I do remember Gunner helping me zip up my jacket because my hands were all thumbs, and putting the lunch box in the pannier bag. The bags he put on when I started to be hi
