Arispe said.

“She was lucky.

Another twenty minutes in a closed steel box in this Arizona heat would have been a very different outcome.”

I rubbed my knuckles until the joints popped.

Mariana didn’t speak.

She straightened the hem of Lily’s pink fleece blanket over the toddler’s lap, smoothing the soft fleece twice over her legs.

“We’ll keep her on IV fluids until midnight,” Dr.

Arispe said.