Mercedes was asleep but she kept tossing and turning. She was having a dream. In the dream, she saw her baby crying. Horace was placed in an unfamiliar dark room by himself. He was sitting on the floor and crying his lungs out. Mercedes couldn't bare to hear him cry so she called out to him.

" Horace, my baby. Why are you crying? Mommy is here. Please don't cry."

Her words never reached him. It didn't seem like she said anything to him since ...