The registry found a softer word for taking a child.
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PROTECTIVE INTERVIEW ORDER:
PIP DARO, WARD NINE.
PURPOSE:
VERIFY MINOR LOCAL WITNESS.
TEMPORARY RELOCATION AUTHORIZED.
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Rina read the order once and made herself slow down before she spoke.
"They are going to steal him politely."
Caleb stood behind her with both hands on the table.
"Where is he?"
Soma brought Ward Nine back onto the wall.
The laundry court sat empty now, damp and cracked, with the gas stripe still half-buried under mud. The blue stairs climbed along the side of a brick apartment block. People had packed onto the landings with blankets, crates, wheeled chairs, two mattresses, and one shopping cart full of medicine bottles.
Pip Daro sat on the second landing in the yellow raincoat.
The coat made him too easy to find.
