Grandma Yu covered the spot over her heart.
"Thump, thump, thump!"
Grandma Yu slowly let out a breath.
"Careful."
Xiao Xiao reached out and grabbed the child by the arm.
The child had one foot on the stone stool, half his body hanging over the railing.
He leaned forward again.
He swayed unsteadily, looking very dangerous.
"Lele."
Grandma Yu furrowed her brow. "Haven't I told you several times?"
"Don't climb up there."
The child hung his head.
He'd been a little frightened just now, too.
"...I wanted to see if Mommy and Daddy had come back..."
the child murmured.
The adults fell silent.
Mommy and Daddy...
By now, the two elderly people were a little confused.
Of course.
The child's situation had always left them feeling as if they only partly understood it.
They understood why the child had ended up in this situation.
But they couldn't make sense of the specifics of what the child was experiencing.
They didn't know...
Was the child really...
planning to see his Mommy and Daddy coming back by looking out from the balcony?
How could that be?
The two elderly people found it unbelievable.
And were filled with confusion.
Wasn't everything just the child's imagination?
Since it was something happening in his own mind, shouldn't it be easy to make it come true?
Why make things hard for himself?
Couldn't he just make Mommy and Daddy appear?
"Doctor..."
Grandma Yu walked over to the doctor and asked what had been puzzling her.
"Why..."
She pressed her lips together.
"...isn't it all just something this child imagined?"
She realized she wasn't sure how to put her thoughts into words.
She struggled to find the right phrasing.
"Can't..."
"If Lele wants to see his Mommy and