Rescue

Lilia gripped her phone tightly and stared at the screen. The phone number listed there was only one digit short, but the boy was caught before he could finish it. In that case, Lilia could only try one by one until she found the right number!

The dizziness that had been pounding her was getting stronger, making her head throb in pain. But she ignored the headache and started trying numbers from 0 to 9.

Whenever someone picked up her call, Lilia's first sentence was always the same.

"Excuse me, have you lost your child?"

A telephone receiver called Lilia a lunatic. Another person immediately hung up the phone without listening any further. Some of the numbers she tried were not connected to anyone. Even so, Lilia didn't give up.

Finally, when Lilia called for the eighth time, the receiver gave the response she had been waiting for.