With concern, Rita looked at the man she had met earlier, sympathetically wincing on his behalf. It would have been silly, however, to attempt to check a phone of her own. Seeing as she did not keep a mobile herself.
"I was not feeling well and /then the world went sideways/." With a look downwards, the young Nepalese woman noticed that the face of her cheap sports watch was cracked. And was, therefore, unlikely to give her any clue as to the proper time. "Perhaps one of the parties would not have been much better off," she looked around the room, having already been told that many of the injured were from the parties and concerts.