“Maybe we should just wake him up. He's quite heavy, you know,"

Alexis reasoned.

But already, Leonel had lifted the boy in his arms. Though his injured leg was fast recovering, he still seemed to struggle a bit while carrying Daniel. Yet, he persisted in carrying the boy up to the his room on the second floor.

Gently, Leonel laid his son down on the bed.

After he had tucked him in, he looked down at him for a while.