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 it on the table

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

couldn't let

is the method I was teaching you, but I haven't shown

betrayed him with another growl. Karina chose not to point it out, instead nodding with understanding. "Alright. But I am hungry. How about we eat first, and then

hesitated, his face taking on an unexpectedly adult

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

waited patiently, not rushing him, giving him the

Dylan finally set down the blocks and quietly started

working on the blocks together,

surprise and looked up, startled

of

admiration at the

want to play too! Can I, Director?"

course, but you'll need to ask Dylan for

immediately ran up

like someone

shut inside a room for years, unaware that he could step out. Now that

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