[his step falters a bit when she tells him she had a similar experience. While it's not completely implausible for there to be two accidents on any given day, there are a lot of people in the hospital.

He runs his fingers through his hair, like he's searching for bumps. He won't find any, of course]

It's really hard for me to take anything they say at face value. Neither of us look or feel hurt, so what kind of accident was it? [it's a more rhetorical question]