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The anxiety was overwhelming. She was extremely frightened, with dilated pupils and a heaving chest; I couldn't quite understand what had happened to her.
"What’s wrong?" I asked. "What happened?"
She swallowed hard.
"It’s something horrible," she murmured.
I approached her and took her arm to ...