He arrived like a ghost. No tears, no questions, just those wide, unblinking eyes that tracked every movement as if the room might disappear if he dared to blink. His file called him “withdrawn,” but that word was a lie. Withdrawn is quiet; this was survival. Nights told the truth—silent screams, clenched jaws, small hands gripping the edge of the matt.
He didn’t step into our home so much as haunt its edges, a child-shaped shadow testing whether walls could be trusted not to move. We watched him memorize exits, inventory cupboards, hover between hunger and hesitation. Every flinch was a story he couldn’t yet speak. We learned to lower our voices, announce our approach, place food where he could see it and leave it, untouched, without consequence. Safety, for him, wasn’t a feeling; it was data collected over days, then weeks.
What changed him wasn’t a single moment, but a thousand quiet repetitions. The same face at school pickup. The same blanket folded at the end of his bed. The same answer—“You’re safe”—offered without demand that he believe it. Slowly, his questions grew longer than his silences.
One night, he fell asleep without guarding the door. That was the day we realized healing doesn’t look like fireworks. It looks like a child finally resting, convinced the world will still be there when he wakes.
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