Overload

Extraction team finally arrived.
Risa felt strangely numb. Shouldn’t she be glad?
They will save everything.
Shouldn’t she feel hope?
Emptiness.
A need to be useful, to fill the emptiness.
„I found a portal leading to Raven’s location,“ she said. „I can open it...“
„But is it safe? Did you check?“
She is supposed to check? How? Confusion.
„Um...“
Signal sounded.
„Tiger, that’s the emergency beacon! Get ready to go!“
A whirl of motion. Orders. She was not to stand in a way, better go to the heli.
„We will save him.“
She was useless. And safe.
Thorne wasn‘t.
Guilt.