Chapter 15, Three-Minute Hero Summary

Dido runs down the hill toward them. Still reeling from the realization that it was not, in fact, her mother in the crashed-up car, Angela cries out to her mother. The sight of her mother reassures Angela further that she is safe.

Dido kneels beside Jerry. Someone has seen the accident and has already called an ambulance. She asks Phil if he was okay, and Phil explains that he had fallen out of the car - they were not wearing seatbelts. Dido offers to take over holding the t-shirt over Jerry's wounds, but Angela steps in. Seeing her daughter is still visibly shaken, Dido intervenes and takes over while Angela uses Phil's knife to cut off his own shirt. In the distance, the whine of the ambulance could be heard.

While they wait for the ambulance, Tycho tells Dido...