Anyone else would have been dismissed immediately.
But Noah didn’t seem to understand fear.
He looked up at Jonathan—this distant, intimidating man—and simply asked, “Do you live here all by yourself?”
Jonathan didn’t respond.
But he didn’t send him away either.
And over the following days, something unusual began to unfold in quiet, almost unnoticed ways.
Noah would appear unexpectedly, sit nearby as if it were the most natural thing in the world, offer him cookies with small, open hands, or leave childish drawings outside his office door, as if placing pieces of himself into a life that had long been empty.
And Jonathan, without ever consciously deciding it, began to wait for those moments.
It didn’t make sense.
It felt absurd.
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