it seems as if there are 11 spiritual meanings to encountering an owl and K is the 11th letter of the alphabet... www.liquidsandsolids.com/what-does-it-mean-when-an-owl-crosses-your-path/

This may be because Doug recognised the first man was a disguised criminal and therefore spent time trying to find evidence of false identification documents on his person. Added to which, he may not have been all that good when it came to emergency medical care anyway, so he decided to leave it to the professionals.

I did some checking. Given that the French developed triage within the context of the First World War, it is logical to assume that they might be familiar with it due to its origins then- if they'd had military experience themselves, because triage only came into widespread civilian medical use during the seventies and eighties. It's possible that if there were military medical personnel on site dealing with this crisis, as there might well have been if this occurred during wartime and there might be some suspicion of Axis-backed terrorism or sabotage, and there was an adjacent military base, Doug and Terry's services might not have been required, so if he recognised an incapacitated member of his rogues gallery, he might be able to investigate why that person was there, particularly if he or she had a modus operandi that involves use of explosives or mayhem in mass contexts: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triage

There's no reason why any rewrite of the story couldn't amplify the background details slightly to make it more convincing and spell what might have been implicit for a wartime readership though, dan.

Another question for you guys...

a while back I rewrote a Public Domain origin for Jack, Knapp - Blue Fire. If his girlfriend Hazel Hudson were to somehow gain similar powers (mainly like a blue Human Torch), what would be a good name for her heroic identity?

Thanks!