Orion recognized emotional pain when she saw it, and she dropped her gaze to the floor while the doctor collected himself. Hardly anyone ever asked about who she might have lost because she never got close enough for them to do so, but she was sorry if she'd re-opened any old wounds for the man.
"I guess trauma units are pretty much a thing of the past," she commented in response to his statement. "Before, you'd be able to go to an emergency room if you had a real crisis and they would help you. But I heard a lot of horror stories about what happened to the hospitals when the electricity first went out. It must have been like a war zone."