My Head of Security Tried to Blow Up My Car — A Homeless 5-Year-Old Saved Me
Part 2
I handed my phone over to Officer Davis and stepped away from it like it was radioactive.
I didn’t want to touch anything connected to my own life.
I borrowed her phone to call my personal attorney.
Heather arrived exactly eighteen minutes later.
She walked through the courtyard gate looking entirely unfazed by the bomb squad and the federal agents.
She carried her leather folio and wore her usual expression of absolute calm.
I gave her the facts in short, clipped sentences because she hated when people wasted time with emotions.
She listened without interrupting once.
A federal agent with sharp eyes walked over to join us near the bench.
She explained that the mechanic they had identified was already on a federal watch list.
She told me they had been tracking massive financial irregularities at my company for seven straight months.
They had initially thought I might be the one embezzling the funds.
I stared at her in total shock.
She said fourteen million dollars had been slowly drained from the accounts.
My security chief Craig had been running the entire scheme from the shadows.
Last Friday I had ordered a full internal audit because some numbers just didn’t align.
Craig knew the audit would expose his theft completely.
He had decided to eliminate me and take control of the resulting corporate investigation himself.
The federal tactical teams were moving in to arrest him right at this very moment.
I looked back over at the little boy sitting quietly on the iron bench.
He was eating a turkey sandwich the federal agents had brought him.
Heather sat down next to him and asked about his grandmother.
He said she was currently at a homeless shelter with a terrible wet cough.
He said the visiting nurse had mentioned the word pneumonia.
He knew she was dying but he pretended not to notice so she wouldn’t worry about him.
My chest felt suffocatingly tight.
I had spent my entire morning arguing in court over millions of dollars.
This five-year-old child had spent his morning making sure I didn’t get blown to pieces in the street.
The federal agent looked at me and told me I was the only thing standing between him and a terrible fate.
She told me to do right by him.
I watched the boy carefully wipe a tiny drop of chocolate milk from his chin.
How do you repay a five-year-old who slept behind a dumpster to save your life?
Part 3
What is the proper way to express gratitude to a homeless child who just kept you from being blown to pieces?
You purchase a permanent home for him, you rescue his dying grandmother, and you swear he will never spend another night on concrete.
But before Greg Lawson could begin to settle that impossible debt, he had to survive a Tuesday afternoon that began on the crowded steps of the Sutherland County Courthouse.
The courthouse was a monument of gray stone and towering pillars designed to make every human walking through its doors feel small and insignificant.
Greg Lawson did not feel small today.
He felt victorious.
He had just spent the last six hours inside Courtroom 4B destroying the opposition in the largest corporate merger lawsuit of his entire career.
The air in the hallway still smelled of expensive cologne and nervous sweat.
His legal team had packed their briefcases with the frantic energy of winners rushing to celebrate.
Greg had left them behind.
He needed a moment of quiet before the press descended upon him.
He adjusted the cuffs of his tailored navy suit and pushed through the heavy bronze doors.
The afternoon air hit him like a physical blow.
The sky above the city was a flat, unyielding sheet of overcast gray.
Wind whipped between the skyscrapers, carrying the faint smell of exhaust fumes and impending rain.
At the bottom of the wide stone steps, a crowd of reporters had already gathered.
They were shouting his name.
Camera flashes strobed against the dull afternoon light.
Greg maintained a carefully neutral expression as he descended.
His black town car was idling exactly where it was supposed to be at the curb.
His driver, Brian, stood rigidly by the open rear door.
Brian had the practiced stillness of a man who had done this exact routine a thousand times before.
Greg shifted his heavy leather briefcase to his right hand.
He reached up with his left hand to adjust his tie one final time.
He was exactly three steps away from the safety of the vehicle.
He was one stride away from sliding into the quiet, temperature-controlled leather interior.
Then a tiny voice cut straight through the chaotic noise of the avenue.
The voice was small but sharp enough to slice through the shouting reporters.
“Sir, please don’t get in that car.”
Greg stopped dead in his tracks.
He looked down.
A child was standing directly in front of him.
The boy had both of his small palms raised flat in the air.
He was completely blocking Greg’s path to the car.
The boy could not have been older than five.
His skin was a deep, warm brown.
His dark hair was cut close on the sides with a small twist of curls on top.
He was wearing a faded yellow T-shirt that looked like it had been washed a hundred times.
Over the shirt, he wore a thick gray cardigan that was at least three sizes too big for him.
The heavy wool cuffs swallowed his hands almost all the way to his fingertips.
There was a dark, heavy smudge of dirt across his left cheek.
His canvas shoes were scuffed at the toes and laced entirely wrong.
But his eyes were what caught Greg’s attention.
They were completely steady.
They were locked onto Greg’s eyes with an intensity that did not match his tiny size at all.
A courthouse security officer noticed the delay and began moving toward them from the flank.
Brian took half a step forward from the car.
He was already glancing at Greg for the silent signal to physically clear the child out of the way.
Greg felt a strange instinct kick in.
He raised one single finger in the air.
Everyone instantly froze in place.
Greg looked down at the boy and spoke in a careful, measured tone.
He told the child that he needed to step back because the street wasn’t safe for him to be standing in.
The boy did not blink.
He stared right back at Greg and repeated the exact same phrase.
He said the street wasn’t safe for Greg.
A small ripple of scattered laughter broke out from a knot of reporters who had drifted closer to hear.
Somebody in the crowd raised a heavy camera lens.
Greg felt the familiar, uncomfortable prickle of public attention shifting from his courtroom victory to this unscripted moment.
He despised unscripted moments.
He despised cameras pointing at anything he hadn’t personally arranged.
His voice lost some of its previous softness.
He crouched down until his knee hit the freezing cold stone of the third step.
He didn’t care that the rough stone would permanently mark the expensive navy wool of his trousers.
He set his heavy leather briefcase down on the step beside him.
He brought his face down to the boy’s eye level.
He asked the boy where his parents were.
The boy replied with brutal simplicity that he didn’t have any parents.
Greg frowned slightly and asked where his grandmother or his guardian was.
The boy said his grandmother was at the homeless shelter on Fremont Avenue.
He explained that she was very sick and couldn’t come with him today.
The boy took a deep, steadying breath.
His voice grew firmer.
He told Greg that he had come all the way here because he saw a man.
He said he saw a man put something underneath the black car.
He specifically mentioned the black car with the silver M on the back.
He said he had seen it happen two nights ago.
Greg’s head snapped up.
He followed the boy’s gaze toward the idling town car.
His custom vehicle had a discreet silver M monogram near the rear trunk lock.
It was a personal vanity detail he had stopped paying attention to years ago.
His stomach suddenly performed a violent twist.
He didn’t want to name the feeling just yet.
Brian leaned in closer and spoke in a low, tense whisper.
The driver suggested the kid probably just wanted money.
He claimed there was a whole crew of street kids who worked the courthouse steps on big trial days.
Greg told Brian to be quiet and give him a moment.
He turned his full attention back to the tiny boy in the oversized cardigan.
He asked for the boy’s name.
The boy said his name was Tyler.
Greg asked Tyler to explain exactly what he saw, speaking slowly and clearly.
Tyler didn’t hesitate for a single second.
He described a man dressed like a mechanic in gray coveralls.
He said the coveralls had a specific patch sewn onto the side.
He said the man had been talking intensely on a cell phone.
He quoted the man as saying “Tuesday at three o’clock.”
He said the man had then laid down flat on the concrete.
He had slid something shiny and silver up underneath the bottom of the car.
Tyler explained that the man never saw him because he was hiding behind a large dumpster.
He mentioned that he sometimes slept behind that dumpster when the Fremont shelter was too full.
Greg’s mind raced through the terrifying implications.
Tuesday at three o’clock.
Today was Tuesday.
Greg had walked out of the courtroom doors at precisely two forty-one.
He glanced at his expensive wristwatch.
The glowing dial read two fifty-eight.
A nearby reporter leaned forward, sensing that something serious was unfolding.
Brian’s professional driver smile had begun to wear dangerously thin.
Greg noticed that Brian’s hand was resting casually on the edge of the open car door.
Greg told Tyler to stay exactly where he was and not to move an inch.
Tyler nodded once.
Greg stood up slowly.
His knees ached from the cold stone.
His heart was hammering against his ribs in a way he hadn’t felt since his first day of law school.
He looked at Brian.
He looked at the open door of the black sedan.
He looked up at the massive gray columns of the courthouse rising behind him against the flat sky.
He reached inside his jacket and pulled out his cell phone.
His thumb moved on pure survival instinct.
He did not call his elite legal team.
He did not call his fiercely competent assistant.
He did not call his highly paid chief of corporate security.
He dialed emergency services.
He identified himself clearly to the dispatcher.
He stated that he was standing on the front steps of the Sutherland County Courthouse.
He declared that he had credible, eyewitness information regarding an explosive device.
He said the device was attached to the underside of his black town car.
He read the license plate out loud.
The dispatcher tried to interrupt, but Greg cut her off.
He demanded the bomb disposal unit and a complete street evacuation immediately.
He hung up the phone before the dispatcher could finish her next sentence.
Brian had gone completely still.
The driver’s hand dropped away from the car door.
It fell to his side in the careful, neutral manner of a man trying desperately not to make a sudden move.
Brian started to say that there must be a mistake.
Greg ordered him to step away from the vehicle.
He ordered Brian to walk backward up the steps.
He ordered him to stand flat against the stone wall by the massive columns.
Brian opened his mouth, closed it, and obeyed.
He walked with the stiff gait of a man who didn’t know if he was being suspected of murder or being saved from death.
He passed within an arm’s length of Tyler on his way up the stairs.
Tyler didn’t even flinch.
The boy kept his steady, dark eyes locked entirely on Greg.
Greg turned his attention to the tight cluster of reporters.
There were maybe six journalists, two photographers, and a young woman holding a microphone.
They had been standing close enough to hear fragments of the conversation.
They were currently piecing the terrifying truth together.
Greg shouted at them to get off the steps immediately.
He ordered them to cross the avenue and get behind the line of parked cars on the far side.
He told them he was not joking about the bomb.
For one agonizing second, nobody in the crowd moved.
Then the young reporter with the microphone yelled for everyone to run.
The spell broke instantly.
Heavy cameras were lowered.
People began sprinting blindly across the avenue.
A court bailiff standing inside the glass doors saw the panic erupt.
He shouted something unintelligible and started waving the remaining onlookers back inside the building.
Greg looked down at Tyler.
The boy was still standing in the exact same spot with his palms raised.
Greg told him they needed to go up the stairs.
He held out his hand.
Tyler looked at Greg’s hand for a long moment.
He looked at it the way a child does when evaluating if an adult is safe.
Then Tyler slipped his small, freezing fingers into Greg’s palm.
The rough wool cuff of the oversized cardigan slid down to cover Greg’s thumb.
They walked up the wide stone steps together.
Greg deliberately forced himself not to run.
He knew with absolute clarity that running would terrify the child.
He knew this boy had already been frightened enough for one lifetime.
They walked steadily, as if heading to a calm school assembly.
They walked as if the world wasn’t about to violently detonate fifteen feet behind them.
At the top of the landing, Greg guided Tyler behind the thickest stone column.
He crouched down again.
He told Tyler that he had done the absolute right thing.
He promised Tyler that no matter what happened next, he was a hero.
Tyler finally nodded.
His dark eyes were suddenly shining with unshed tears.
The fierce conviction that had carried him through the crowd was draining away.
It was draining the way courage does in children when a capable adult finally takes charge.
Tyler whispered that he had been afraid the adults wouldn’t listen to him.
Greg told him softly that he understood.
The first police sirens screamed up the avenue exactly at three-o-four.
The rear courtyard of the courthouse was a depressing square of cracked, weed-choked concrete.
It was bordered on three sides by towering, windowless stone walls.
The fourth side was sealed off by a heavy chain-link gate leading to a dirty alley.
There was a single rusting iron bench in the center of the yard.
A dying potted tree stood next to a trash can that hadn’t been emptied in months.
Under normal circumstances, Greg would have complained about the bleakness of the location.
Today, he was profoundly grateful for every inch of thick stone wall between them and the street.
He sat down heavily on the iron bench.
He lifted Tyler up and set him gently on the seat beside him.
Tyler’s scuffed canvas shoes dangled several inches above the cracked concrete.
Greg noticed the boy was violently shivering.
He stripped off his expensive suit jacket without a second thought.
He draped the heavy navy wool around Tyler’s narrow shoulders.
The jacket completely engulfed the child.
The wide lapels draped past Tyler’s knees, and the collar bunched up around his ears.
Tyler immediately clutched the front of the jacket with both hands, pulling the residual warmth tight against his chest.
Officer Davis stood about ten feet away.
She was giving them enough space to breathe but staying close enough to protect them.
She held a small black notebook in her hand.
She approached slowly and crouched down in front of Tyler.
She introduced herself in a warm, steady voice.
She asked if she could ask him a few simple questions.
Tyler politely said yes.
She praised his excellent manners.
Tyler proudly stated that his grandmother had taught him how to behave.
Officer Davis asked for his full name and exact age.
Tyler stated he was five and three quarters.
Officer Davis wrote it down with a perfectly straight face.
She asked him to describe the man he had seen underneath the car.
Tyler chewed thoughtfully on the cuff of the gray cardigan for a second.
He described a white man with a short, neat brown beard.
He described a black beanie hat pulled low over the man’s forehead.
He described the gray coveralls and the specific red and white patch sewn over the heart.
He said he couldn’t read all the words, but he knew the letters A, B, R, and the word ‘bar’.
Officer Davis muttered the name of a local towing company under her breath.
She asked Tyler if the mechanic had been entirely alone.
Tyler confirmed he was alone, except for the person on the other end of the cell phone.
He repeated the phrase about Tuesday at three o’clock.
He added that the man had mentioned the car with the M on the trunk twice.
He said the mechanic had laughed an ugly, unhappy laugh.
He said the man talked about getting half the money now and half the money later.
Officer Davis wrote furiously without looking down at her page.
She asked Tyler if the mechanic ever used a name for the person on the phone.
Tyler scrunched up his face in intense concentration.
He said the mechanic kept calling the person “Boss”.
He said the mechanic had used a name that started with a C just once.
He said the name sounded like Craig.
Greg felt his hand convulsively grip the edge of the iron bench.
His knuckles instantly went bone white.
Craig Stanton was his meticulously chosen chief of security.
Craig was the man who arranged every detail of Greg’s travel.
Craig was the man who had patted Greg’s back that very morning and called it a big day.
Officer Davis stopped writing and looked directly into Greg’s eyes.
She saw the horrifying realization blooming across his face.
Greg forced his voice to remain steady.
He told her to keep asking the boy questions.
He insisted he was perfectly fine.
Tyler was watching Greg with an expression of grave concern.
Greg forced a small, genuine smile for the child’s benefit.
Tyler continued to recount his story with flawless precision.
He described the exact location of the rusted dumpster on Wexler Street.
He described a broken streetlamp that flickered every six seconds.
He described a unique tattoo on the mechanic’s right hand.
Officer Davis handed Tyler her pen and the blank back of an evidence form.
Tyler carefully drew a five-pointed star containing a perfect circle inside it.
Officer Davis stared at the drawing for a long time.
She stood up and walked over to the chain-link gate.
A man in a sharp dark suit had just appeared on the other side.
They conversed in urgent, hushed whispers.
The man checked his phone, nodded grimly, and vanished down the alley.
Officer Davis returned to the bench, but this time she did not crouch down.
She informed Greg in a low voice that the device was absolutely real.
The bomb squad had just confirmed the magnetic charge above the rear wheel well.
It was designed to be detonated remotely by someone watching the vehicle.
She told Greg the car was a total loss, but they were preserving the explosive for evidence.
Greg sat in stunned silence.
Officer Davis explained that the remote detonator meant the assassin was nearby.
Police were currently sweeping every rooftop and parking structure in a four-block radius.
She needed to know who was in charge of Greg’s security detail.
Greg felt the question land like a physical blow to the ribs.
He gave her Craig Stanton’s name.
He explained that Craig was supposed to meet him at the rear exit.
Officer Davis asked if Craig had called him.
Greg finally pulled his phone out of his pocket and looked at the glowing screen.
There were eleven missed calls lined up in a row.
All of them were from Craig.
Officer Davis nodded slowly, as if a terrible suspicion had just been confirmed.
She ordered Greg not to return the calls and not to contact anyone in his company.
She asked if he had a trusted contact entirely outside the corporate structure.
Greg immediately thought of his personal estate attorney, Heather Park.
Officer Davis handed Greg her own radio-issued cell phone.
Greg dialed Heather’s private number from memory.
Heather answered on the second ring with her usual crisp efficiency.
Greg told her there was a bomb under his car.
Heather didn’t gasp, panic, or ask stupid questions.
She simply demanded his exact location and promised to be there in twenty minutes.
She ordered him not to speak to anyone from the firm until she arrived.
Greg handed the phone back to the officer.
His hand was surprisingly steady.
Tyler had been listening to every word of the adult conversation.
He looked up at Greg with his eyebrows pulled tight together.
He asked if the man named Craig was going to be mad at Greg.
Greg softly admitted that Craig probably would be.
Tyler asked if the bad men were going to try to hurt him again.
Greg looked at the tiny boy drowning in the oversized navy jacket.
He felt a surge of fierce, protective rage rise in his chest.
He promised Tyler that nobody was going to hurt him ever again.
Officer Davis quietly echoed the promise from a few feet away.
Heather Park arrived exactly eighteen minutes later.
She strode through the chain-link gate wearing a pristine cream blouse and black trousers.
She carried her leather folio tucked neatly under one arm.
She looked like a woman who had decided decades ago never to let the world surprise her.
She took in the bizarre scene in three rapid seconds.
She saw Greg sitting on the rusted bench.
She saw the tiny boy wearing Greg’s massive suit jacket.
She heard the muffled, distant thump of a controlled detonation from the street.
Tyler flinched violently at the sound and grabbed Greg’s sleeve.
Heather walked directly to the bench.
She didn’t speak to Greg first.
She looked down at the boy and introduced herself formally.
Tyler politely offered his name.
Heather asked permission to sit on the other side of him.
Tyler nodded shyly.
Heather settled onto the rusted iron and finally turned her sharp gaze to Greg.
She commanded him to explain everything.
Greg delivered the facts in the clean, emotionless sentences she preferred.
He told her about the boy, the phone call, the mechanic’s tattoo, and the silver explosive.
He told her about the eleven missed calls from Craig Stanton.
Heather sat in silence for several seconds, processing the nightmare.
She asked Greg how long Craig had been his chief of security.
Greg told her it had been nine years.
She asked who knew about the massive internal financial audit Greg had scheduled for Wednesday.
Greg admitted that Craig had helped him schedule it.
Heather nodded grimly.
She pointed out that Wednesday was tomorrow.
She didn’t waste time saying she had warned him about Craig years ago.
She simply turned to Officer Davis and asked if the federal authorities were involved yet.
Officer Davis confirmed a federal agent was currently en route.
Heather declared that Greg would not be returning to his home or his office tonight.
She had a secure private location ready.
She turned her attention back to Tyler.
Her severe face adjusted into something resembling maternal softness.
She asked the boy where his grandmother was right now.
Tyler explained she was at the Fremont Avenue shelter in the women’s section.
He said she had the cot near the window so she could read her paperback books.
He said her name was Brenda Brooks.
He quietly added that she was suffering from pneumonia.
He confessed he had heard the visiting nurse diagnose her through the privacy curtain.
The courtyard fell dead silent.
Greg stared down at his own hands resting on his knees.
He thought about the word pneumonia.
He thought about the word shelter.
He thought about his morning spent arguing over a settlement with seven zeros in it.
Heather promised Tyler that they were going to take excellent care of his grandmother.
Tyler looked at her, then at Greg, searching for the hidden trap.
He asked what he had to do in return for their help.
Heather gently told him he had already done enough.
Tyler thought about it, nodded slowly, and tucked his hands deeper into the jacket sleeves.
Special Agent Nguyen arrived at four twenty-three.
She was a stern woman in a charcoal blazer who radiated extreme competence.
She introduced herself to the adults, then crouched down to speak with Tyler.
She promised the boy they were going to catch the bad men.
She asked if he was hungry.
Tyler’s hesitant silence was all the answer she needed.
Agent Nguyen procured a brown paper bag containing a turkey sandwich, an apple, and chocolate milk.
Tyler carefully ate the apple first, savoring every single bite.
Agent Nguyen pulled Greg and Heather into the far corner of the courtyard.
She revealed the terrifying scope of the conspiracy.
The bomb was identical to three others used in corporate assassinations on the Eastern Seaboard.
The mechanic Tyler described perfectly matched a known cartel associate.
But the most shocking revelation was the financial investigation.
The federal government had been tracking fourteen million dollars missing from Greg’s company.
They had initially placed Greg on the suspect list alongside his CFO and his security chief.
Greg’s decision to call the police today had completely cleared his name.
Craig Stanton was the mastermind behind the massive embezzlement.
The audit Greg had ordered would have exposed the entire fraudulent operation in days.
Craig had tried to buy himself a different ending by burying Greg in a fireball.
Agent Nguyen stated that tactical teams were moving to arrest Craig immediately.
She then looked Greg dead in the eye.
She told him that the homeless boy eating the sandwich was his only savior.
She demanded that Greg handle the boy’s future correctly and privately.
Greg swore he would.
The shelter on Fremont Avenue was a converted three-story brick school building.
The faded outlines of chalkboards were still visible on the dormitory walls.
Greg arrived in a borrowed charcoal sweater and gray slacks.
His ruined navy suit had been confiscated as critical physical evidence.
He walked into the building with his hand resting lightly on Tyler’s shoulder.
Heather flanked them on the right, radiating authority.
Federal agents maintained a secure, invisible perimeter outside.
The shelter director, Mrs. Jenkins, met them in the cramped front office.
She demanded to know where Tyler had been.
Tyler explained he had been talking to police about a bad man with a beard.
Heather quickly and concisely explained the bombing attempt to the director.
Mrs. Jenkins removed her reading glasses and pinched the bridge of her nose.
She warned Greg that Brenda Brooks was the proudest woman she had ever met.
Brenda had been a dedicated school nurse for thirty-one years before the rent increases broke her.
She was refusing hospital treatment for her pneumonia because she was terrified the state would take Tyler away.
Mrs. Jenkins told Greg he had to frame his offer as a repayment of a debt, not as charity.
Greg agreed completely.
They walked up the stairs to the second-floor women’s section.
It was a long, cavernous room filled with identical military-style cots.
Brenda Brooks was sitting up on the cot near the window.
She wore a worn flannel nightgown and had a faded knitted shawl draped over her thin shoulders.
Her dark hair was going gray at the temples and was pulled back with a plain elastic band.
She saw Tyler and her exhausted face instantly transformed with pure relief.
Tyler ran across the room and buried his face in her neck.
Brenda held him tightly for a long time before looking up at Greg.
Her sharp eyes evaluated the wealthy man standing in the aisle.
She asked if he was the man her grandbaby had saved today.
Greg pulled up a small wooden stool and sat down so they were at eye level.
He told her the absolute truth without sugarcoating the danger.
He explained about the bomb, the mechanic, and the treacherous security chief.
Brenda listened without interrupting a single time.
She asked Tyler if he had been sleeping by the dumpsters again.
Tyler admitted he had done it to avoid catching a cough from the man next to him on the floor.
Brenda closed her eyes, fighting a silent battle against her own tears.
Greg leaned forward and spoke with absolute conviction.
He told her he owed her a debt he could never fully repay.
He offered her a secure private room at a premium hospital tonight.
He promised Tyler could sleep in the exact same room with her.
He promised Heather would legally block any attempts by the state to separate them.
He then offered her the permanent deed to a fully furnished house across the river.
He insisted it was hers to keep forever, not a temporary loan.
Brenda stared at him for a long, agonizing minute.
She placed a trembling hand flat against her aching chest.
She finally agreed to go to the hospital.
The private medical transport was white, completely silent, and exceptionally gentle.
The paramedics treated Brenda like royalty as they wheeled her out.
Tyler held tightly to her hand the entire way to the hospital.
The fourth-floor private suite at St. Anne’s was incredibly warm and quiet.
Tyler curled up immediately in the plush corner recliner.
He refused to take off Greg’s massive suit jacket.
Brenda fell into a deep, medicated sleep as the antibiotics began to work.
Greg stood in the silent hallway with Heather.
Heather informed him that Craig had been arrested in the underground garage with a packed bag.
The mechanic was also in federal custody and had already confessed everything.
Greg looked through the partially open door of the hospital room.
He watched the rhythmic rising and falling of Brenda’s chest.
He watched Tyler sleeping peacefully, his small hand resting protectively on his grandmother’s arm.
Greg realized how violently fragile his structured, wealthy life had actually been.
He realized a child living behind a rusted dumpster possessed more honor than the men he paid millions.
He decided he was not going home tonight.
He sat down in the waiting lounge chair and watched over the room.
He guarded the boy who had guarded him.
THE END
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