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She scrolled down. A comment, dated just last month, from a user named “YH_returns”:

Mira closed the laptop. Outside her window, the city was dark—a different city now, far from Alexandria. But in her chest, something cracked open. Not hope, exactly. More like a door she had nailed shut, suddenly unlatched. fylm Down 2019 mtrjm awn layn kaml

He tapped the corner of the mural, where he’d written the word in thin black letters. Mutarjim. Translator. She scrolled down

“Say something, Youssef.”

“What’s she called?” Mira’s voice asked. But in her chest, something cracked open

Inside: one file. A video. Length: 12 minutes, 41 seconds. Date modified: August 2019.

The camera swung around to reveal a boy—tall, bony-shouldered, with a grin that split his face like a dare. Youssef. He was squinting into the low sun, cigarette between his fingers. He said something in Arabic, too fast for Mira to catch, and then in English: “Film it properly. Don’t cut my head off.”