“No one can help me.” A break in his tone. She thinks of how they are told that God wants to help His creations, how He says: take one step toward me and I will take ten steps toward you. She is only human, but still, if her brother would only speak to her, be honest with her, she would step a hundred times toward him. He studies her for a long time. “You think it’s okay,” he says, looking at her the way he would look at a friend, “but they don’t.”
