The Society (A Broken World book 1)
“When trying to save the life of someone from the Society, you generally didn't have to do much more than stop the bleeding and occasionally perform rescue breathing.If you could keep their blood pressure up, their blood circulating, and keep them breathing, then usually you were only hours from having them make a full recovery from anything that didn't destroy an organ outright. What I knew about keeping someone alive beyond that wouldn't have filled up a very tiny book, but I was very much aware that things didn't work that way for someone who wasn't carrying several trillion nanites inside of them.I made it to Brennan's side to find him gasping in a vain effort to fill his lungs, and thought for a moment that I might be sick. The way the entire right side of his chest had been caved in was nothing less than grotesque—it was no wonder he was having such a hard time breathing.There was surprisingly little blood given the force with which he'd been struck. As fast as the belt had been ...moving, I would have half expected it to shear through human flesh, but instead it had manifested primarily as blunt-force trauma.I tipped Brennan's head back, clearing his airway, and then placed my mouth on his and pushed air into his lungs.MoreLess
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