She presses the towel to his left cheekbone, then the right.

"Treated a patient once," she says, her voice equally quiet in the small space between them. "She was in custody, brought into the ER from jail. Corrections officer said she was a real hell-raiser. Non-compliant, combative. So a whole team of guards pepper-sprayed the shit out of her in her cell."

She frowns to herself.

"Turns out she'd been trying to tell them she was epileptic and prone to anxiety attacks. They sprayed her into a seizure."