She moved to stand near Cade and look him over as the medics hoisted
Nassir onto a gurney and pushed the gurney away.
"Get any blood on you?" she asked.
Turning completely around for her examination, Cade said, "Don't think so.
He went down fast and hard."
As he turned back to face her, Carter said, "You look clean enough to me.
Let's get out of their way," and thumbed at the glass doors to the street.
Two guys with janitorial gear hurried across the lobby and began cleaning up
the blood in the doorway. As soon as they'd finished, another guy covered the
bullet holes in the archway ceiling with a large cardboard poster that said,
"Keep looking up!" and pictured a spaceship with a little green man leaning out
of the cockpit to smilingly wave at the reader.
Bartow and Evans had already been helped to the ambulance and Royce and
Davies had replaced them. Carter tapped Cade's arm to get his attention, then
pointed at his now-clean doorway. He nodded and stepped over to take his
position before the doors.
Cade said, "Some people saw me grab the MAC when I opened the door."
"We know," said Carter.
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