BLOOD AND ABSOLUTION
Didn't check on him, didn't ask if he was alright, and Leo understood, distantly, underneath the roaring static of his own fear, that this was simply what tonight looked like for everyone else in the room.
Ordinary. Survivable.
A Tuesday.
He wasn't sure, standing there with his hands still slick with someone else's blood, that he'd ever be able to call anything ordinary again.
The crate he'd been loading sat half in the truck, forgotten, and Leo set it down slow and careful, like the gentleness of the gesture might undo some of what he'd just watched happen ten feet away.