Zack Wallace took Alexander Summers to find Clyde Summers.
Clyde was in the Intensive Care Unit. As they entered, the sounds of wailing were incessant. Some were cries from unbearable pain; others were sobs under tremendous mental trauma. There were shouts and roars intertwined as the nurses busied themselves to the brink of collapse, barely able to attend to Alexander and Zack Wallace.
Alexander saw Clyde on a bed in the corner of the room.
He had just had his amputation surgery a few days ago and was now as frail as a thread, with the empty space under the trouser leg of his right leg clearly visible, but he was lucid.
Alexander walked over and meticulously sized him up from head to toe—defeated, disheartened, and disheveled. To describe him as half-dead wouldn't be an exaggeration.
