The Caretaker saw it before the child did. She put herself to the left of the child and gently angled them away from the scene knowing that she would see it eventually, if not today, then soon, and that these few seconds, these remaining moments, before discovery were the most precious things they had. There was nothing else in either of their lives tha…
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