For twenty minutes he walked through the dehydration, the strain on her kidneys, the asthma flare.

“The child’s temperature was 104.2 degrees.

She had gone roughly seventy-two hours without fluids.

Her lips were cracked.

Her eyes weren’t following movement.”

“Was she getting her maintenance asthma medication?” Chloe asked.

“The pharmacy log shows the prescription was filled five days before admission and never picked up.

It was in the trunk of the mother’s car.”