By late afternoon, the reinforced transport platform had finally arrived. Adam watched the crew unload it from a covered truck behind the medical unit, where ambulances were still coming and going. The platform looked more like a narrow hospital bed than anything designed to carry a wounded Adventurer, except for the heavy frame beneath it and the suspension mounted along its sides.
A woman in a dark medical jacket inspected the wheels while two technicians checked the straps. She introduced herself as Leah, the transport specialist sent from a regional treatment center. After hearing what had happened to Marcus, she had insisted on examining him before anyone tried to lift him.
"The frame reduces movement," she told Adam and Elesch. "It doesn't eliminate it. If his condition is as unstable as the reports suggest, I need to know what happens when we shift his weight by even a few centimeters."
