It remained hers to ask about.

It did not need to remain against her skin for the adults to remember its importance.

Clara was being treated for severe dehydration and a sudden complication following childbirth.

The clinical team evaluated the cause and the problems that had developed while she had been without adequate care and fluids.

They did not tell Chloe the name of a disease they had not established.

They did not ask her whether her mother had taken a particular medicine and treat an uncertain answer as a diagnosis.