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 n years ago ---Layl:a's p,=?arents d$ :)ied pulling Elias Cole out $of  a bur_ning building_(. She watc he-d it happen, and the trauma took*# a%`ll \?five of her s^_enses +. Si
ght %%came back. Heari /ng a))[n]+d spee!ch=% never `did. .
Elias le?arne::d s!?,ign : langu)%`age for h,er an^\@d made her a p+@romise-:* he'd be h,$er eye\%s, her*(  ea/-rs, her voice,/$ and sh!ow her the  wh. -ole world.  The Col.+?es # raise)`d)* h\:+er. The whole school knew wh;[ose ?, _gi`r/l she was.
Then a\ tr??ansfe.!!r student named Mo@:lly.) tu:`rn.:(s the s=chool %*i, nto @.#a game
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$d in the boy_#s' bath+**-room Layla's he%arin;=$g comes back — -)just in time to *,le!)arn that (Elias has` b%:een on t
h(e [:(other side of that ga=me for a lo)]ng t/\^ime. She sa)%\_ys nothing. S!@:he lets them keep ta?-lking,- keep escalating, +\^keep filming! -., =-while a r:\ecorder ,*co `^ll,ec@](ts every] voice:%, every#)#% insult, every l)ine abou*].t a *cripple who ca/^n't call=@;#- for help. She ta:kes the b% ea?tings, the wastew%]a\[ter] tank, :/the broken =ribs], a (nd she _;kee$(`ps @the/ file. Molly is go\ i#,ng to h!$ ear_ her own voice played back to h+er*. And w %h\=en Elias finally turns a)round and sta rts bre`aking[@ *)things to make i-.t ,@up to] _her, -Layla will alread+@y be  on a plane,( wit:+,h an uncl )*e who has been wa#itin!?g- ten ^y*.=ears for \^,her call, learni^ng )to say] her f`/] irst? word? out loud.