Chapter 1887

Karina nodded to the caretaker to signal she understood. After the caretaker left, she approached Dylan's desk.

Squatting down to his level, she looked at Dylan, who was fully absorbed in his block puzzle. "I know how to put this together. Would you like me to teach you?"

Dylan paused for a moment.

Karina pretended not to notice. "It's tricky, isn't it? And it seems like this block is part of a set. Are there more pieces somewhere?"

Dylan glanced at her, and Karina initially thought he would ignore her entirely.

To her surprise, he responded. "Yes, there are... in the room."

The sentence was short, but it was enough to make Karina's heart soar. Communication-even this little bit-meant there was hope.

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She followed him to his room to retrieve the rest of the blocks, and the two of them spent the entire afternoon building together.

in a meal, placing it on the table

even as his stomach growled audibly. He showed

couldn't let

one of the blocks he was holding, she said, "This is the method I was teaching you, but I haven't shown you

it out, instead nodding with understanding. "Alright. But I am hungry. How about

on an unexpectedly adult expression, as if he were seriously weighing the

exceptionally bright-some even showed signs of genius. But their brilliance often came at the cost of emotional barriers

giving him the time

Dylan finally set

on the blocks together, and by evening,

surprise and looked up, startled to find a crowd gathered

some of the other children were standing

children gasped in admiration at the

too! Can I, Director?" another girl

you'll need to ask

girl immediately

seemed like someone

that he could step out. Now that the door was suddenly flung open, the influx of attention.

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