The guest room became a bedroom by the end of the week, which is to say we put his clothes in the dresser instead of the suitcase.

Ethan gave him a charger and a lecture about the Wi-Fi as if the password were a birthright.

Leo gave him a sweatshirt that already smelled like our detergent.

Julian put it on immediately.

Cloth is how you join a family when the years are late.

There were interviews and files and the words the state uses when a child is moved by a lie.