Kellan wrote the first version of the grounding card in letters large enough to read while his hands shook.
CURRENT LOCATION.
CURRENT OBJECTIVE.
WHO IS WITH YOU.
ROUTE OUT.
He left a blank after each line. The card was not a map of every possible emergency. It was a place to put the information Eli might need if he no longer recognized the room around him.
Tessa read it at the medical-room table. “Add the date and the name of the person giving the information. If the card is old, it could make things worse.”
Kellan added both. Sera asked for a space where the retreat route could be crossed out if it changed. Eli watched the card fill with instructions for a version of himself he could not trust to recognize a patient in front of him.
