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The Tenants Below the Frost Line
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Theo wouldn't come back up. He sat on the cold step, head tilted, listening. "They're telling me a secret," he said, smiling at the wall. When I pulled him, his skin was freezing, and he kept whispering numbers I'd never taught him. Counting down instead of up.
I plugged Theo's ears with my hands and hummed his favorite song until the whispering lost its grip. Slowly his eyes cleared and his skin warmed up. "Don't listen to the counting," I told him. We climbed up together. We never used that staircase again, and we taught ourselves to sleep through the tapping.
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