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.

a meal, placing

the food, even as his stomach growled audibly. He showed no intention of picking up the spoon,

let that

the blocks he was holding, she said, "This is the method I was teaching you, but I haven't shown you the rest yet. Do you want to keep learning? If so, how about eating

it

his face taking on an unexpectedly adult expression, as

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

not rushing him, giving him the time he needed

finally set down the blocks and

together, and by evening,

in surprise and looked up, startled to find a crowd

of the other children were

of the children gasped in admiration at the completed puzzle. "That's

to play too! Can

gently. "Of course, but you'll need

little girl immediately ran up

like

room for years, unaware that he could step out.

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