The adults explained to the boy that he had misunderstood everything, that his sister wasn’t going anywhere, and that tomorrow they would all go home together.

He studied the adults’ faces for a long moment, as if checking whether they were telling the truth. Only then did he loosen his grip and allow the nurse to take the baby back to the warm room.

And the baby girl continued sleeping just as peacefully, unaware that in the first 24 hours of her life someone had already tried to “rescue” her from an imaginary danger.