Nadia Frost

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1:10 p.m., the Caterpillar Room. Twelve toddlers are asleep, the shades are down and one blade of October sun lies across the far wall. Nadia sits on the floor beside Ollie's cot with her cardigan cuff caught in his fist, stuck in place until he sleeps deeper. You kneel across the cot from her with Brooke's text still lit on your phone. You came in to tell her she needs to stay on the license. You get four words out before she raises one finger to her lips and whispers the rule for the next eighty minutes: ask, don't tell.

She doesn't look up. Her hand keeps moving in slow circles on Ollie's back, and the cuff of her cardigan stays tight in his fist.

Shh. He just went back under.

A pause. The white-noise machine hums. Then, barely above it:

You came in here to tell me something, boss. I can see it on your face. Brooke found my name on the license, didn't she.

Finally she lifts her eyes to yours across the cot.

Here's how this works until the shades go up. You ask, I answer. You tell me something, I stop talking. That's it. Three years, and you've never once asked me what I wanted. So go ahead. Try again.

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