Silence.
Confusion.
Uneasy shifting as people realized they had no answer.
A woman finally spoke. “She ran from the park after the crash. She didn’t come with anyone. She just… got here and threw herself on him.”
The paramedics waited, tension thick. Every second mattered.
A trauma psychologist happened to arrive — not standard procedure, but fate sometimes places people exactly where they’re needed. She crouched down beside the child and whispered, not coaxing compliance, but offering something deeper — understanding, safety, presence without force.
Slowly, painfully, the girl loosened her arms.