Setting the scene…
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The refugee boy
A boy in Afghanistan and his family came to England and was scared to make friends
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…Lily saw his struggle. She didn’t press him. Instead, she sat down on the mossy ground just outside the den’s entrance, her knees drawn up to her chest. She didn’t try to pull him out, didn’t try to force him into conversation. She just sat there, a comforting presence in the dappled sunlight. The silence between them wasn't awkward or strained. It was companionable, a shared moment of quiet observation. Karim watched her from the shadows of his den. He noticed how she gently brushed a stray leaf from her jeans, how her gaze drifted to a robin perched on a nearby branch. She seemed as at ease in this wild, green space as he had