I hurried on to find the room where Gail was. She was not pale, as I had expected, but pink-cheeked and bright-eyed. They were probably putting in more blood than they were taking out. There were two of the other mamas from our car pool, waiting their turns.
Regina was sitting by the bed, her face ugly and swollen from crying.
"She looks just fine!" I exclaimed.
"Only in the last fifteen minutes," she said. "When I called you, she was like ice. Her eyes didn't move."
"We're lucky with Gail. Did you know about Hi-nin?"
"The little animal!" she said. "He's the one that did it."
"He didn't do anything, Regina, and you know it."
"He shouldn't have been in the car pool. He shouldn't be with human children at all."
"He's going to die," I said quickly, before she had time to say things she'd have nightmares about later on.