🍼 The Baby Who Did Not Cry
Sebastião dismissed all servants and took sole care of Felipe. But the boy was strange: he didn’t cry, didn’t reach, didn’t smile. He lay motionless in his mahogany cradle, eyes fixed on the ceiling like a porcelain doll.
Months passed. Sebastião grew thinner, his beard unkempt, his eyes sunken. Joaquim, the estate foreman, suggested hiring someone for the housework. Reluctantly, Sebastião agreed.
The new servant was Renata, 22, slender, with skin like ebony and eyes that observed everything. Her task: work in silence, interfere in nothing.
