With less than nothing.

A boy with bruises he wouldn’t explain built a school out of the air, for children who had even less than he did.

That’s who you almost lost.

That’s who we came for.”

Chapter 26 — On Their Own

“I can’t ask you to risk your health,” Aurelio managed at last.

“You’re not asking,” Mireya said simply.

“We came on our own.” And so the hospital did the thing it was there to do: it organized proper evaluations, one by one.