Oh god no. Not crying. Kirin didn't even think it was tears of pain, since no one had touched the ankle since she sat down. Well, maybe she was in shock? He supposed that might be the normal response. He considered faking it, since it seemed Jess wasn't the only one - those idiots who'd stopped right outside the doors and weren't worried about the building exploding when the fire finally got the gas line? In the end he discarded the idea - someone had to keep their head around here. That seemed more important than pretending to be like everyone else.

He proffered the towel to Jess again. "It-it's okay," he said awkwardly. "We're alive, and I'm sure others will make it out and... jesus christ I suck at this, just stop crying." Screw this trying to be nice s**t, Jessaface could deal with the Ice Queen while Kirin did what he could for this ankle.

"Bite down onto the towel," Kirin ordered in a frosty voice. "This is going to hurt like a b***h and no one wants to deal with you biting your tongue off."

Reaching over, Kirin prodded at the ankle. The foot was at a relatively normal ankle, from what Kirin could see. It wasn't like he was a doctor - just raised on too much Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman, thanks mom. So he knew the right things to say, but he'd never had to do something like this before!

"Okay, I'm just gonna wrap it now," he said. He grabbed the strips he'd torn off his pant leg and raised Jess' bad leg off the ground. Okay, that wouldn't work when he needed both hands... Sticking out one of his own legs, he lowered Jess' so that her calf was propped up by his knee. The ankle didn't make it back to the ground - perfect.

Kirin began tying the strips tightly around the ankle, winding a bit above and below the break. If his hands shook a little, well, he could blame that on shock. And if the wrapping more closely resembled the wrapping method for a snake bite, well, beggars couldn't be choosers.

To distract Jess, he said, "So, you think they'll try and claim the building caught bacterial meningitis and died?"