Once again, Abigail took off running. She pounded on the door of the mountain house and waited, her heart nearly jumping out of her throat. No answer.

She pounded on the door again, but didn't wait for an answer this time. She ran to Maru's door and pounded on it.

"What the…?" Maru stumbled to the door in her pajamas. She rubbed her eyes and squinted, trying to get a close look at Abigail.

"Sebastian's really hurt!"

"What?"

"We got turned into frogs, and he's human again but he says his whole body hurts and he can't breathe!"

Maru put her glasses and her boots on, grabbed her backpack, and followed Abigail. Abigail tried to explain, but Maru just didn't get it. Maybe she was still waking up. Or maybe the story was just that weird…

"Sebby!" Maru ran to her brother as soon as she saw him. "What happened?"

"I got...turned into...a frog." He tried to take a deep breath, but winced and shuddered instead. "She...threw me. Witch. Threw me...on a rock. Everything...hurts."

"Crap!" Maru pulled out a pair of scissors. "Abigail, go get Harvey! Tell him to call an ambulance and meet us here." She turned back to Sebastian. "Sebby, I'm about to ruin your hoodie and your t-shirt. I'll buy you new ones."

"Okay…"

"This is a huge problem. Go now," Maru said. Normally, Sebastian would be throwing her across the room if she even joked about ruining his hoodie.

Again, Abigail ran. Her throat hurt. Her lungs were starting to burn. Tears ran down her face, then down her neck, into her shirt. It was uncomfortable. She didn't care. She had to get to Harvey. She vaulted over rocks, jumped down stairs, and finally pounded on Harvey's door.

No answer.

She grabbed a handful of small rocks from the ground and launched them, one by one, at the clinic's upstairs window. After four rocks, the light turned on.

"Harvey!" Abigail shrieked. "Help! Come downstairs!"

"Abigail! What is the matter?" Like Maru, Harvey was in his pajamas, with his glasses and his backpack.

"It's Sebastian! The witch turned him into a frog, and threw him, and," she inhaled sharply, "now he's saying he can't move and he can't breathe and his chest hurts…" She couldn't hold it in any longer. She sobbed.

Harvey wrapped his arms around her. "We can help him. Is he still a frog?"

"No, I fixed that." She sniffled.

"Where is he now?"

"On the mountain. Maru's with him. She wants you to call an ambulance."

"Does Maru have her bag?"

"Yeah."

"What is she doing?"

"Cutting off his hoodie. She says we need to go now!"

"Alright." Harvey's voice was softer than usual. "I'll drive. Let me get my cell phone. I'll meet you here."

After what seemed like hours, but in reality was only about two minutes, Harvey pulled around in a golf cart with knobby tires. The back seat was full of medical equipment. Abigail got in the passenger seat.

"He's up on the mountain, south of the wild man's tent and west of the lake."

The golf cart, with its electric motor, was nearly silent. Rocks crunched under the tires. Harvey was also silent, save for an offer of tissues, which Abigail gladly took. She could feel her back pressing into the seat as Harvey raced up the mountain. She didn't know golf carts could go that fast, especially not uphill! By the look on Harvey's face, she figured he didn't know that, either! Maybe Maru had done something to it.

Maru waved. Harvey hit the brakes, expecting to skid to a stop. Him and Abigail stopped immediately, hitting their knees on the frame of the cart. "Hey! What did you do to this thing!?" He hopped out, leaving the headlights on to illuminate the scene.

"Tell ya later," Maru said. "Have you called EMS yet?"

"No, I was driving," he said.

"Gimme your phone."

Harvey tossed Maru the phone, then went over to Sebastian. He was on oxygen, his shirt and his hoodie were cut open, and Harvey could see that some of his ribs were very visibly broken. His eyes were closed.

"Sebastian!" Harvey tapped his shoulder.

"What."

"Good, you're awake! Can you tell me what happened?"

"No...ask...Maru."

"Okay. You're short of breath, I can tell. Are you in pain? On a scale of one to ten, what's your pain level?"

Sebastian said something foul.

"We'll call that a ten. I'll start an IV and give you some pain medicine."

Abigail sat down beside Sebastian and took his hand. He gave her a gentle squeeze, then closed his eyes again.

"ETA five minutes!" Maru called. "They had someone coming from Grampleton!"

"Thanks." Harvey calmly placed the IV in Sebastian's arm. He drew up a syringe full of pain medicine, then put it in the IV. "Sebastian, you should start to feel better in about a minute. This stuff works fast. There's an ambulance on the way."

Sebastian squeezed Abigail's hand again.

After about a minute of waiting, Sebastian's body visibly relaxed. "Oh, hey," he said, "this is better."

"Good! Can you tell me what happened?"

"Kind of?" Sebastian chuckled, then winced in pain. "I can breathe a little better."

"Good."

"The witch turned me into a frog. She grabbed me by the leg and threw me. I landed on a rock, it was a hard landing. I went to the wild man's tent and knocked over his water so he'd notice me. He put me in the lake. A little while later, Abigail showed up. To let her know it was me, I stood up and did the Flower Dance."

Harvey laughed. "Smart!"

"Thanks. It hurt so bad. Then Abigail turned me back into a human, and I couldn't breathe and it hurt to move."

"I think you may have sustained injuries as a frog that carried over despite your transformation."

Slowly, the ambulance crawled over the rough mountain terrain. Two Joja Medical Response EMTs climbed out, removing the stretcher from the back of the ambulance. Harvey waved.

"Hello! This is Sebastian, a 22-year-old male complaining of severe pain and shortness of breath after being turned into a frog and thrown against a rock..." Harvey rattled off his report.

"WHAT." The attending EMT looked incredulously at Harvey.

Harvey continued. "Frog transformation was undone by an apprentice witch, at which time patient started complaining of pain and shortness of breath. Patient has an IV in his left AC, 100 of Fentanyl on board, he's on high-flow oxygen, and I'll be going too."

"You will?" Nearly everyone on scene asked that question, mostly at the same time.

"Yes. Patient has narcotics on board, and I'm a physician. Per your own protocols, you'd need a higher level of training to take this patient since he's on pain meds, and I'm not willing to wait for a second ambulance."

"You're in pajamas and slippers." The EMT nervously grabbed his phone. "I'm calling my supervisor to make sure this is okay."

"I'll talk to them on the way," Harvey said. "Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. Let's go!"

With that, the EMTs loaded Sebastian in the ambulance. Harvey grabbed his bag and hopped in the back. Slowly, the ambulance drove off. When they hit the highway, Maru and Abigail heard the engines rev. The driver hit the sirens.

As if on cue, Maru and Abigail fell into each other's arms, crying.

"Harvey hates emergencies!" Maru wailed. "If he's voluntarily going, it's serious!"

"I could have done so much better!" Abigail buried her face in Maru's shoulder.

"And they're going hot, too!"

"It's all my fault!"

"No, it's all the witch's fault!" Maru sniffled. "It doesn't matter. I gotta tell Mom!"

Now it was Abigail's turn to say something foul. "My parents are gonna kill me, Maru! I hope they let me continue my training! I wasn't expecting anything like this to happen…"