Cougar always looks serious, he knows, but still, some people like Jake have learned how to see flinches as full monologues of emotion. He inhales sharply and gestures to her as he ducks down to avoid her gaze as he folds away his gauze. "You are young," is what he says. "I don't like seeing young people get hurt."

At least she's still alive, which is more than Cougar can say for twenty-five little children in a helicopter in Bolivia and one unfortunate child in Afghanistan who didn't know what was going to happen.