“Thank you,” Christina nodded.
While waiting for the ambulance, an elderly woman ran over, flailing her arms: “Oh, monsters! Who abandons a child!” Her questioning only added to Christina’s mounting panic. A man in a tracksuit suggested, “Maybe we should take him into the apartment?” But Christina feared unnecessary movement: “In case the doctors need to examine him on the spot.”
After about 15 minutes, the siren wailed in the courtyard. Paramedics with a stretcher hurried to the entrance. Christina was trembling as she held the little one close, trying to warm him. A doctor, a middle-aged woman, touched him and raised her eyebrows:
“He’s alive but weak. He needs to go to the hospital immediately. Who are you—the mother?”
“No, I found him…” she swallowed bitterly. “It seems he’s been abandoned.”
