The officer was straightforward.
“Unless new evidence appears, we may never know how he ended up there.”
I had expected that.
It still hurt.
“So nobody answers for it.”
“I can’t tell you that a crime occurred without evidence establishing what happened.”
I hated the answer.
But it was true.
We knew Sombra had been badly injured.
We knew he had gone untreated.
We knew he had spent weeks struggling outside.
We did not know whether someone had intentionally abandoned him after the injury, whether he had gotten loose long before, or whether someone had searched for him.
A story can become more emotionally satisfying when every cruel event has a clear villain.
Real life does not always cooperate.
I decided Sombra did not need a villain for his survival to matter.
Two months after the rescue, Dr. Patel examined him again.
He watched Sombra walk the length of the room.Shop Walking Shoes
