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“Get the kid away! For Christ’s sake, get him away!”
“Come on, sweetie, come with me-“
“He needs to see the paramedics – Jesus, look at his face-“
“That’s it, come with me sweetie, leave her, let the paramedics get to her-“
“Stop gawping you lot, move along now! Move along!”
“It’ll be alright, love, the paramedics need to have a look at you – it’s gonna be alright…”
“It’s Banner – yeah – always knew somethin’ was goin’ on there – “
“In front of his boy too. Poor kid-“
“He’s always been messed up, everyone knows that –“
“Move along, folks! This is a crime scene, you need to move along!”
“Sit down here, sweetie, that’s it – put this on your eye-“
“Terrible business. Terrible-“
The voices were buzzing in the distance. Something cold on his face. A heavy weight around his shoulders – a blanket – and his hands were red. Blood. There was blood on his hands and on his clothes and smeared on his glasses and on the sidewalk and in her hair and on her coat and now there were people, people around her touching her why were they touching her? Hot, metallic anger bubbled in his throat and they all needed to leave her alone and leave him alone leave him alone leave him alone-
His limbs were heavy and he couldn’t move. Anger raged inside him, beating at the walls of his mind, tearing and snarling and screaming, and there was nothing else, everything was empty and distant and covered in blood.
Anger trickled hot into the empty spaces.