This Afternoon

[x-dominion.livejournal.com]

Well, we blew the eventfree trip into the city card. This afternoon, while downtown, Angel Jones was at a camera shop waiting for her dad when a nearby building caught fire. She decided to go in to help after hearing that a couple of people were trapped inside, and from the mostly incoherent rambles from my backseat, I've pieced together that she saved a couple of lives doing so.

She's home, and in a bit of shock. Unfortunately, neither myself or DavjaCynedckdi Haller are the most empathetic souls, so someone might want to check up on her and see how she's doing. I think she's mostly just scared that she's somehow in trouble for what she did. Also, freaked out of her mind from running into a burning building, on top of her normal dedicated mainlining of RedBull through an IV drip.

Someone should drop in on her, and maybe give her some time off classes to get her bearings? It seriously looks like she got a couple of people out, which is a lot to deal with for a fifteen year old. I'll give the Fire House a call on Monday, find out what happened and make sure that we know if there are any issues involved.

Comments

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

I realize there's a certian visceral reaction to the words "student", "fire", and "life-threatening situation" in combination, but she is okay. I think it might help to focus on the specific situation and how well it turned out, rather than dwelling too much on the broader implications. We do our best to strike a balance between protecting them and giving them the freedom they need - it's all we can really do.

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, overreaction moment. This definitely was the best outcome of a worst-case scenario, if that makes sense.

(I'm also still mortified about my previous chaperoning experience having involved yanking the kids into a coma in January, among other things. There's definitely some projection going on. I know that's basically just a right of passage here, but that was just embarrassing.)