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Some prayers are not meant to be answered.
Charles grows up knowing he was heard, even if he cannot remember when, or by whom. There is a presence in his life that never quite leaves, a warmth that lingers too long, a voice that learned how to be quiet for him alone.
Carlos is not a guardian in the way humans understand the word. He does not intervene. He observes.
He stays.
As time moves forward, meaning catches up with memory, and devotion begins to rot into something sharper. Love, once given, does not disappear, it only changes shape.