“Was she poisoning him?” Magdalena whispered, sinking into a chair.

“That is for the Prosecutor’s Office to determine,” the doctor said.

“What I can tell you is that the pattern is consistent with prolonged exposure.

The rest is for the courts.” Aurelio remembered phrases from the report — the unlabeled capsules the boy had described being given whenever he complained of being tired, the “vitamins,” the “something to help you sleep.” He had not understood them as weapons.

He understood now.