She murmured in her sleep. Sometimes she spoke gibberish, cried out, called out names Mariam did not recognize.
She wept in her sleep, grew agitated, kicked the blankets off, and then Mariam had to hold her down.
Sometimes she retched and retched, threw up everything Mariam fed her.
When she wasn't agitated, the girl was a sullen pair of eyes staring from under the blanket,
breathing out short little answers to Mariam and Rasheed's questions.
Some days she was childlike, whipped her head side to side, when Mariam, then Rasheed, tried to feed her.
She went rigid when Mariam came at her with a spoon.
But she tired easily and submitted eventually to their persistent badgering. Long bouts of weeping followed surrender.
Rasheed had Mariam rub antibiotic ointment on the cuts on the girl's face and neck,
and on the sutured gashes on her shoulder, across her forearms and lower legs.
Mariam dressed them with bandages, which she washed and recycled.
She held the girl's hair back, out of her face, when she had to retch.
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