Nolan, Weight

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Life Frames, Nolan, fireman rescues a baby from house fire, AI, ALART
Nolan’s shoulders drop first, before he even notices they’d been anywhere else. Then his jaw, then the grip he didn’t know he’d been holding in his own chest since the doorway. His partner’s voice had talked him out through the smoke — left, now down, watch the step — words with no room in them for anything but the next four feet. Now there’s nothing to listen for but this.

The baby clutches a fistful of blanket like she’s angry at being woken, indignant and small and completely unaware of what she was just carried out of. Nolan almost laughs, but doesn’t have it in him yet.

His face streaked black, his eyes still stinging, and none of that has caught up with him. It will, later, all at once. Right now there’s just her weight against his chest, and how much lighter it is than everything he just walked through and his fears that he’d fail.

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