Naomi’s POV Tent four was pure chaos. The boy lay across two folding chairs side by side, his skin gray and his lips already turning a dark shade of blue. A young woman was on her knees in the dirt beside him, clutching his sneakers and sobbing so hard she could barely get words out. “Please, just do something,” she screamed, looking up with red, glassy eyes. “He just stopped breathing! He’s only six, please!” Dr. Marcus held a plastic oxygen mask over the boy’s face, but his hands shook so badly the seal kept slipping. “His airway keeps filling with mucus,” Marcus said, struggling to keep the mask in place. “I can’t get enough oxygen into his lungs.” I moved beside him. “Let me in.” I dropped to my knees on the grass and checked the boy’s pulse at his neck. It was fast and weak. His chest barely moved, and he did not respond when I called to him. For a moment, I thought about my own baby and the warnings Dr. Hayes gave me. I touched my stomach through my coat, then turned my a
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