HIS NEIGHBOR WOULDN’T STOP REPORTING THE SOUND OF A GIRL CRYING INSIDE HIS HOUSE—THEN HE HID BENEATH HIS DAUGHTER’S BED AND HEARD HER PLEAD FOR SOMEONE TO SPARE HER

Dust pressed against his shoulder as he lay hidden beneath his own daughter’s bed, one trembling hand covering his mouth while fifteen-year-old Lucia cried above him as though every place she had once felt safe had suddenly vanished.