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frieze. David snapped a few more pictures. As they headed back down the staircase to rejoin their friends, David said, “Oh, wow. Look up.”
    Jen tilted her head to see a crisp beam of sunlight piercing the dome just below its stained glass peak. The brilliant flash of white absorbed and softened the colors of the glass above, reaching out from the sky to inject its mystical force into this manmade structure—as if to prove that no matter how much beauty man could create by his own hands, that beauty would always be trumped by something bigger.
    Jen gaped at the beam, transfixed by its magic. Distracted as she continued down the stairs, she stepped too close to the edge of the bottom step. Her foot gave out under her, snapping to the side, and she toppled, landing with a smack onto the marble floor.
    “Are you okay?” David rushed to her, unsuccessfully stifling a laugh.
    “Just humiliated.” She felt a sharp pain in her leg and winced. “I’m such a dork.”
    David held out his hands to help her up. Jen grabbed onto them, but as soon as she put weight on her right foot, a jolt of hot pain shot up her leg. She gasped, lowering herself back to the floor. Involuntary tears sprang to her eyes. “That really hurt.”
    David’s smile vanished. He knelt on the floor next to her and gently pushed up the hem of her jeans, pressing his hand along her skin. Her foot and ankle throbbed. She felt nauseated and sweaty, like she might throw up or pass out. David’s gaze flicked to her face. “You’re so pale. I think you might’ve broken something.” He moved behind her and let her lean on him.
    “I’ll get some ice on it. It’ll be fine.” Jen heard the weakness in her voice.
    “We need to get you to a hospital.”
    “Let me try again,” Jen insisted, shifting her position to put weight onto her left leg. The tiny movement sent a new jolt of pain through her.
    “Don’t move,” David warned. “If something’s broken, you could make it worse.”
    “Go tell Joe and Marcy what happened. I’ll wait here.”
    David started to pull away, but then he was back, with his arm around her shoulders. “I’m not leaving you.” Someone stepped into the circle and David called out, “Excuse me! Sir! We need help.”
    The man looked over and David described Marcy and Joe and asked him to tell them to come. The man disappeared. A few minutes later, Marcy and Joe ran toward them.
    “What happened?” Marcy sounded panicked.
    “She tripped on the stairs. I think she broke something,” David said.
    “You’re such a spaz.” Joe shook his head.
    “Should we call an ambulance?” Marcy asked.
    “No!” Jen pictured a SWAT team of paramedics storming the capitol building and drawing more attention to her clumsiness. “I’ll just…maybe with one of you on either side, it won’t hurt so bad.”
    “We’ll try,” said David. “But if it feels like we’re doing more damage, you better tell us.”
    Jen nodded.
    “Marcy, why don’t you pull the car up to the entrance, and Joe and I’ll walk her there.”
    “Got it.” Marcy dashed away.
    David and Joe crouched next to Jen, and she wrapped an arm over each of their shoulders. The guys gingerly lifted Jen to standing position. With her right leg bent to keep pressure off her foot, the pain was manageable. They made their way to the entrance, and against Jen’s protests, Marcy drove them to the emergency room at the closest hospital.
    After filling out paperwork in the waiting room, Jen was taken to a small room where a lanky doctor examined her and ordered X-rays. An orderly navigated her wheelchair down a busy hallway to radiation and then back to the stark examination room. While she waited for results, her friends were allowed to join her.
    “I’m so sorry, you guys,” Jen said.
    “It’s not like you planned it.” Marcy cupped her hand over Jen’s shoulder.
    “I shouldn’t have told you to look up while we were walking down stairs,” David said.
    “Look.