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.

caretaker brought in a meal,

glanced at the food, even as his stomach growled audibly. He

let that

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 we eat first,

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

genius. But their brilliance often came at the cost of emotional barriers that kept them from connecting

giving him

set down the blocks and quietly started

on the blocks together, and by evening, they had finally

Dylan jumped in surprise and looked up,

director, caretakers, and even some of the other children were standing

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

to play too! Can I,

smiled gently. "Of course, but you'll need to ask Dylan for permission

little girl immediately ran

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