At that moment, I saw my phone on the ground, a few meters away, like a last chance in the middle of chaos.
I lashed out at him, ignoring the pain, ignoring the risk, because sometimes survival is not logical, it is pure instinct.
—“Catch her!”— shouted Raúl, and that order revealed that it was not an isolated act, but a collective dynamic.
My fingers touched the screen, and in a desperate movement, I opened the chat with my brother Alex, the only person who could break that cycle.
I wrote two words that encompassed all my fear and all my hope: “Help. Please.”