Eight doctors struggle to save a dying baby—until a ragged boy points to the child’s neck and says something no one dares believe

with the seriousness that some children brought to the obvious.

“Fair,” she said, and turned back to her notebook.

He almost smiled.

He took out the notebook that had been in the bag that had been on the desk in the room that was his now, and he wrote the date at the top of the first page in the careful, precise handwriting he had taught himself from continue reading …