Medical attention
By nightfall, the ordeal was behind them. The men were back on land, blankets wrapped tight around their trembling shoulders. Local medics swarmed, checking pulses, bandaging cuts, monitoring exhaustion. Yet amidst the medical chaos, there were reunions—sons, brothers, friends holding onto men they’d believed gone forever. The air was thick with tears and laughter. Luke stood quietly off to the side, his heart still racing, his mind unable to rest.
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