4
Levi
I took in the traumatic scene around me. This chaos was all my fault, but there were too many people that needed my help to wallow in guilt just yet. Parents were starting to arrive and frantically search for their children.
Looking down at the scared young man I was still carrying, I realized that I didn’t even know the boy’s name. “My name is Levi. What’s yours?”
The boy’s eyes lit up with excitement before he could answer. He pointed to a frantic woman wearing a threadbare light blue bathrobe. “Mommy! That’s my mommy!”
The woman made eye contact with her son in that moment. She faltered, appearing to nearly crumple to her knees with the relief of seeing her little boy. After catching herself, she ran forward and threw her arms around her child.
I gingerly handed him to her
