procedures.”
I stood and looked at her.
“Then there is something.”
“I didn’t say that.”
“You also didn’t say there wasn’t.”
At that moment, a woman shouted from the school gate.
“Sofía!”
Sofi shrank.
Her whole body became smaller.
The woman walking toward us wore dark sunglasses, red nails, and a tight smile that did not belong on a worried adult. She did not continue reading …