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.

*

*

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

through, a caretaker brought in a meal, placing it on the

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

couldn't let that

is the method I was teaching you, but I haven't shown you the rest yet. Do you want to keep learning? If

hungry," Dylan replied almost immediately. But his stomach betrayed him with another growl. Karina chose not to point it out,

adult expression, as if he were seriously

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 connecting with the outside

rushing him, giving

a long pause, Dylan finally set down the

together, and by evening,

jumped in surprise and looked up, startled to find a crowd gathered

even some of the other children

of the children gasped in admiration at the

want to play too! Can

you'll need

girl immediately ran

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