[Hamartia]
He took another drag, as if to prove to her her could -- but that wasn't unexpected, and the smoke dissipated against the back of a bystander's head, tendrils curling dark against the early morning sky before disappearing. Lily curled her fingers more tightly into the neck of Toby's robe, her small and warm hand nuzzled close to the cool, exposed skin of the vee and it was enough to check what annoyed words Toby looked ready to address him with, but she still scowled back. Possibly because after a long and sleepless night, she wanted that cigarette just as much as she wanted it out and crushed and nowhere near Lily.
"She's not seeing anything," she said, and it was tight and snapping, a bellicose kind of squaring up to anyone daring to criticize her childcare. "Couldn't leave her alone and I came down to see if I could help." She looked back out at the scene once again; they had the stretcher down from the vehicle, a woman now, not JJ was trying to wrap a blanket around the thin and shaking shoulders of one of the girls, to persuade her into the ambulance proper. She didn't look like she was even aware of what was happening.
"Shouldn't smoke because it will kill you," she added, her fingers carding absently through the child's flitters of blond hair. Lily turned against her shoulder, snuggled more closely and opened wide blue eyes to look at Ryder with silent awe.