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The cold metal always helped me think.
Lily closed her eyes again, her breathing slowing as the medication pulled her under.
I stood up and pulled the blue knit blanket over her chest, tucking the edges under the mattress.
Her small leather backpack was resting on the floor by the bedside chair.
The strap was torn, and the zipper was jammed with dry gray dirt from the plaza floor.
I picked it up and set it on the table next to the cold coffee.
Doctor Avery was waiting near the nurses’ station, his white coat stained with a drop of blue ink near the pocket.
He was looking at the glowing X-ray board, where six distinct white cracks showed on the gray film of Lily’s skull.
He tapped the
