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Después de una persecución de película, efectivos de la comisaría 4ta de San Alberto logró la detención de un malviviente que tenía pedido de captura y atemorizaba a los vecinos del barrio

Días atrás, a través de Facebook, vecinos del barrio San Alberto de la localidad de Ituzaingó hicieron conocer sus quejas y sus miedos por las agresiones a que eran sometidos por parte de Nicolas Santillán, domiciliado en el barrio, y a quien se le atribuyen por lo menos un par de delitos a mano armada y varias agresiones y amenazas. Tal eran las quejas de los vecinos, que hasta las autoridades municipales, que no tienen injerencia en el manejo de la policía y la justicia, mostraron su preocupación por la situación.

Asi dadas las cosas, el martes 24, cerca de las 16hs un móvil de la comisaría 4ta de San Alberto detectó a Santillán en un vehículo  Peugeot blanco, que cuando detecto al patrullero emprendió la  fuga.

Los policías logran alcanzar al Peugeot en la intersección de Gimenez y Bagnat, donde Santillán junto a un hombre y una mujer descienden del vehículo con la intensión de darse a la fuga a pié.

Los efectivos lograron reducir a quienes estaban con Santillán, quien resultaron ser  José Luis Trejo, de 42 años, domiciliado en Ituzaingó y Malena Minuet, de 22 años, domiciliada en Merlo Norte.

Santillán en su huida, logra ingresar en una propiedad en la esquina de Pérez Quintana y Camerucci y de ahí a una propiedad lindera, donde finalmente es aprendido por los efectivos policiales.

Una vez detenidos, los efectivos policiales comprobaron que el peugueot en donde intentaron darse a la fuga, había sido robado hacía dos años en el partido de Malvinas Argentinas y un pedido de captura por el delito de  hurto en la comisaria 2da de La Matanza.

Si bien en un principio hubo algunas vacilaciones en torno a la continuidad de la detención de Santillán, por parte del fiscal que entendió en la causa, una vez que tuvo en sus manos los antecedentes del detenido, decidió que el mismo permanezca en la sede policial.

Santillán fue indagado en la fiscalía en la mañana del miércoles 25 y el Juez de Garantías Juliano Martín decidió que continuará detenido en virtud de los delitos cometidos.

Los antecedentes

Más alla de la  agresión al personal policial y la violación de domicilio que se narra en esta misma nota, Santillán, de 37 años sin ocupación fija, ya había sido denunciado por su hermana, quien lo había acusado de haberla golpeado en la cabeza con la culata de un revolver y luego haber disparado un par de tiros al aire. Si bien en ese momento, cuando llegó la policía al lugar, Santillán ya no estaba, se había dispuesto su detención por este hecho. Asi dadas las cosas, unos días más  tarde, personal de la comisaría 4ta de San Alberto logro divisarlo circulando en una moto Yamaha roja, sin patente. Cuando los efectivos quisieron identificarlo, Santillán descendió del vehículo en Camerucci y Tel Aviv, ingresando por la fuerza a un vivienda. Al descender del rodado, según la policía, se le cayó una pistola Bersa calibre cargado. En esta oportunidad, Santillán logro escapar.

Otra de las denuncias contra Santillán, es de Alejandro Quispe quien fue agredido por el nombrado, a quien golpeó con una madera en la cara produciéndole varios cortes en la cara y en el brazo.

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文章轉載 &#; 作者：家族財富傳承顧問股份有限公司 (原文連結)

在年1月20日這天，台灣長榮集團創辦人張榮發辭世，留下了大約億人民幣的股票、存款及不動產。在遺囑中張榮發表示：此筆財產皆由二房獨子(長榮集團副總裁、長榮航空董事長張國煒)繼承，同時張國煒任命為集團總裁。並且在遺囑中強調三位副總裁「要多多指導四子張國煒」，「所有副總裁們要一起共同協助，讓四子張國煒能順利接任集團總裁，也多多指導孫輩們的經營能力」，同時也表示「願眾子女及孫輩們，皆能和睦相處，互相照顧」。

在法律上，如果大房結合三個兒子的優勢股權，可以自行決定解散長榮集團管理總部，拔掉長榮集團總裁的職務來反制張國煒，然後將長榮集團各高層直接派駐各子集團公司。甚至可以進一步決定裁掉管理總部，並決定長榮集團的總裁只有張榮發一位。若真的走到這一步，長榮集團辛苦所打下的基業就此崩離分裂。如同康熙晏駕後，大臣從“正大光明”匾額拿出遺旨宣讀的鏡頭一樣，所有皇子情緒都炸了鍋。然而，張榮發“兄弟齊心”的遺願瞬間成為“兄弟齊釁”的局面。

 針對這樣的案例，難道張榮發都不知道家族傳承的重要?難道律師都不知道特留分的規定?

假設，如果張榮發在世時，成立了私人信託公司(Private Trust Company，簡稱PTC)，是否就不會演變成現在的情況呢? 從案例中可以知道：張總裁有兩房妻子、五名子女及孫子女，整個集團也都採用傳統的“家族成員治理”模式，也因如此，若有一天大掌門(張榮發)不在了，易造成企業利益與家族利益衝突難以解決。 

所以，私人信託公司成立的主要目的：是為了擔任某個或數個特定信託的受託人。由於家族成員仍然需要對家族內資產保持一定控制權，私人信託公司更便於達成此目的。 在海外許多離岸管轄地，都有對私人信託公司設立的具體規定，私人信託公司和一般有限責任公司相同，需要按照公司章程在管轄地註冊成立，私人信託公司下面設立董事會，來負責私人信託公司的受託資產。一般由家族成員和其選擇的律師稅務師等顧問共同組成董事會成員，從而控制和管理信託內資產。這樣的受託結構保證了只有家族成員或其顧問才能接觸到資產信息。 在設計私人信託公司時，也可以賦予董事會成員不同的表決權，將配偶、子女、參與經營的子女乃至外部專業顧問、律師、信託公司被賦予不同比例的表決權，以確保家人依照其貢獻需求享受到不同受益，同時使資產受到最大保護。而所有運作均依照信託條款對信託資產進行管理及分配。

私人信託公司的主要優勢在於：

1.家族成員能夠積極參與信託資產的管理；

2.在股權的安排上具有高度靈活性；

3.對於信託所持有的資產種類，不因外部受託人具有估值難以執行的考量限制，因此可以充分靈活安排。 

從案例中也可以知道：長榮集團公司目前的股權，長榮國際作為長榮海運及長榮航空的控股公司，長房三個兒子總持股超過在張榮發基金會及張榮發慈善基金會列名董事的張國煒。整個集團海空運主導權並不在張國煒手上。 這延伸出了一個問題：總裁的位子是虛的，擔任總裁的人要有足夠的股權，集團內各公司董事長才會經由推選的方式產生總裁，若董事長經營不利，總裁才會有權力換掉董事長。如果，張榮發意向的確要讓二房獨子張國煒接班，但張國煒股權上面居於劣勢， 家族辦公室這時就應該怎麼做?這時應先清整張榮發個人資產以及集團相關各公司資產，將其彙整成總資產池。同時會建議張榮發將原本由“長榮國際”對長榮海運（TW）以及長榮航空（TW）兩家公司的股份，轉委託給新設立的私人信託公司（即前文提到的PTC結構）持有，將原本各房子女及孫子女的持股比例更改為信託受益比例。 通過這樣的設計，長房的三個兒子在長榮國際的股份、對長榮航空及長榮海運的持股都已轉化為私人信託公司所持有，而張榮發二房配偶（長房已經過世）四個兒子及過世女兒的子女分別具有一定比例的信託受益。而張國煒由於擔任集團總裁的關鍵角色，在PTC的表決權比例增大。

 私人信託董事會有權定期召開董事會議，依照信託條款授權處理資產、負責管理責任的家族成員報告經營現況及提報資產負債表。如此讓具有專業能力的家族成員能各盡職守，各子女的受益權也沒有被侵蝕或吞併。而在設計私人信託公司時，家族辦公室需要注意董事會成員、決策等細節內容必須符合管轄地規定，以避免日後該信託被攻擊為虛假信託或無效信託的可能性。譬如委託人不能設計為私人信託公司的唯一董事。董事會最好有專門從事信託管理的外部成員等等。  

在私人信託公司第一層結構設立後，如何透過保單建立第二道防火牆?

 為了要控制管理層的穩定及因個人不可抗拒的因素造成集團資產的損失，可以透過保單的功能做基礎防火牆建立。透過此種保單，主要作為企業傳承及經營保護所使用。
將保單持有人為公司，萬一公司經理人或是主管無法繼續執行本身專業職務，這時保單可定額賠付，幫助企業在尋找替代人選或結構前，降低機構利潤下降、成本上升的損失，在另一個層面，也可做為育留人才的規劃。長榮集團“人治”意味濃厚，在設立家族辦公室時，建議PTC董事會成員以及各子公司重要的專業經理人及高管加上這樣的保險，做維護企業傳承的第二道防火牆。 一個完整的家族傳承，需思考周延，除了上述說明的：成立了私人信託公司(Private  Trust Company，簡稱PTC)、透過保單建立企業第二道防火牆，並且就此案來說，家族傳承還需考量：分別處理個別資產、綜合基金會功能、遺囑安排以及接班風險等層面思考與規劃。

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This is a short story I wrote in December It&#;s about pain. It&#;s been translated by my friend Vanja Vinter and is published here on my blog for now because I&#;m not really sure where else to put it yet. If you read it and find something you like with it you&#;re welcome to donate whatever you think it&#;s worth to a charity of your choice.

SEBASTIAN AND THE TROLL
A little story about how it feels

Sebastian lives in a bubble of glass. This is a problem, of course, on this everybody on the outside agrees. Glass bubbles are very impractical, for example in classrooms and at birthday parties. In the beginning everybody thought the glass was the problem, but after he’d lived in there long enough it was decided instead that Sebastian was the problem. The people on the outside say you can’t establish eye contact with him, that he seems ”absent”, as if where he is somehow is worth less than where they are.

”Don’t you wanna go outside in the fresh air and play ball? Wouldn’t that be fun?” they used to ask when he was little and their voices could still be heard all the way in. He couldn’t explain then that he didn’t think having fun seemed liked fun. That being happy didn’t make him happy. He can’t remember the last time anyone of them said something funny and he laughed. Maybe he never has, and in that case they’re probably right, the people who for as long as he can remember have been shaking their heads saying ”there’s something wrong with him” to Sebastian’s parents.
He sat close to the glass back then, reading the words off their lips. They were right. A person is supposed to think that having fun is fun, otherwise something that shouldn’t be broken is broken. Something that isn’t broken in children who aren’t weird. For years various grown-ups came and went outside the bubble, some carefully tapped the glass, others banged it hard when he didn’t answer. Some asked him how he ”felt”. He wanted to tell them that it feels like feeling nothing, yet still it hurts. Some said Sebastian ”suffers from depression”, but they said it like they were the ones actually suffering. Sebastian himself said nothing, and now he can’t hear anyone at all from the outside anymore. He doesn’t know if it’s because they gave up or if the glass just got thicker.
When the bubble still had tiny openings at the top they dropped down little pills, they said the pills were supposed to make the glass thinner but he thinks they might have misunderstood. He’s not sure they actually know as much about glass as they claim. The pills got stuck and blocked the last few openings. Now there’s only Sebastian in here.

He can’t sleep at night. Sometimes his parents can’t either. He can see their tears run slowly down the outside of the glass then, they sound like rain over rooftops. Sebastian knows that his parents wish that something awful had happened to him. Because then there’d be a reason for him to hurt. Then he could be understood, maybe even fixed. But Sebastian’s darkness is not just a light switch that someone forgot to flip, not just a pill he doesn’t want to take. His darkness is a heaviness and a tiredness that pulls the bones of his chest inwards and downwards until he can’t breathe. And now the bubble’s gotten bigger, or maybe Sebastian has gotten smaller. Maybe that’s what anxiety does to us, shrinks us. He sometimes falls asleep in the afternoons, from exhaustion, not tiredness. Sleeps with shallow breaths and deep nightmares, just for a few minutes at a time. Until he wakes up one evening with fur in his eyes.

There is a troll sitting in his bubble.

Sebastian knows it’s a troll since he asks the troll:
”What are you?”
And the troll replies:
”A troll.”
Then you know. But Sebastian still needs to ask:
”What do you mean a troll?”
The troll is busy, it’s concentrated on writing something on tiny white notes with a nice blue pen. More and more and more white notes being stacked in uneven piles everywhere, until the troll looks up at Sebastian and replies:
”Regular kind of troll”, it says, since that’s what it is. Nothing special for a troll, but special since it is a troll, of course. It’s after all not that often you see a troll either in a bubble or anywhere else.
”What are you writing on the notes?” Sebastian asks.
”Your name”, the troll answers.
”Why?”
”So that you don’t forget that you are somebody.”
Sebastian doesn’t know what to reply to that. So he says:
”Nice pen.”
”It’s the most beautiful pen I know, I always carry it with me because I want them to know that I love them”, the troll says.
”Who?”
”The letters.”
Sebastian’s fingertips touch the glass of the bubble.
”How did you get in here?” he asks.
”I didn’t get in, I got out”, the troll says and stretches sleepily.
”From what?”
”From you. Through one of the cracks.”
”I’ve cracked?”
The troll rolls its eyes, disgruntledly flails its paw against the walls of the bubble, kicks a threshold, annoyed. Sebastian didn’t even know there were thresholds in here.
”You see, this here shack won’t do anymore, Sebastian. The glass has gotten too thick and everything that’s in here hurts too much. In the end, there’ll be no air left and then something has to crack. Either the bubble or you.”
Sebastian’s fingers fumble over his stomach. His throat. His face. Small, tiny cracks everywhere. They don’t hurt. Sebastian thinks that maybe he’s forgotten how to do it, how to hurt in places where other people hurt, in all the normal ways. Burn-your-hand-on-a-hot-pan-ways. Stub-your-toe-on-furniture-ways. Now he only hurts in weird ways. Ways-that-don’-t leave-a-scar-ways. Ways-that-can’t-bee-seen-on-an-x-ray-ways.
”How did you fit inside me?” he asks the troll.
”Oh, it wasn’t hard at all. I’ve been asleep inside your heart for a hundred thousand years. Trolls get very small when we sleep. Like balloons, balloons also become very small when they sleep.”
”And when they break”, Sebastian notes.
The troll nods thoughtfully, as if this is very, very true. Then asks:
”Is there breakfast?”
Sebastian shakes his head. He doesn’t eat very much anymore, everyone worries about that, as if food was the problem instead of the problem being the problem. It’s easier to worry about food, of course, it’s understandable that the people on the outside stick to the kind of worrying they know best. The troll looks very disappointed.
”You get pretty hungry after a hundred thousand years. Breakfast would have been nice.”
”I’m sorry”, Sebastian says.
The troll nods, with his sorrow in its eyes.
”I know, Sebastian. I know how sad you are.”
Sebastian reaches his hand out. The troll is soft, its fur thick.
”You’re not from my imagination. My imagination isn’t this good.”
The troll takes a deep bow.
”Thank you.”
”What do you want from me?” Sebastian asks.
”What do you want for you?” the troll asks.
”I want it to stop hurting”, Sebastian asks.
”What?” the troll asks.
”You should know, if you’ve been inside me. Everything. I want everything to stop hurting”, Sebastian begs.
The troll doesn’t lie to him then. Sebastian really likes the troll for that.
”I can’t teach you how to make it stop hurting, Sebastian.”
”Then what can you teach me?” Sebastian breathes in reply.
”How to fight.”
”Fight against what?”
”Against everybody that’s coming tonight.”
”Who?”
”Your nightmares. Your weaknesses. Your inadequacies. Your monsters.”

And at night, they come. All of them.

Sebastian sees them at the horizon of the bubble. They wait for just a moment, just long enough for him to have time to be terrified. They love when he’s terrified. And then they come, everyone that hurts, every nameless terror, everything Sebastian has ever feared. Every monster from under every bed and every creature from the darkest rooms inside his head. They ride straight towards the boy and the troll now, all the anxiety that there’s space for in a child. Children always have so much more space inside them than grown-ups can take remembering.
Sebastian turns to run, but he’s at the edge of a cliff, a hundred thousand feet high. The ground shakes, in a few seconds they’ll be here, all his inner demons. He feels their shadows and how cold they make everything. He’s cold on the inside now, they way you get when some of your skin is exposed to the air outside of the duvet an early morning in November, just after winter has wrestled its way into autumn but before the radiators have had time to adjust. Sebastian spins around at the edge of the cliff with his palms open, like he’s looking for heat, and suddenly he actually feels it. It’s coming from below. If he jumps now he’ll land in a bed, soft and safe and full of blankets just the right size for pulling over the head of an average sized boy. He can see it from here. The demons hiss and snarl so close to the edge that the troll has to scream for Sebastian to hear it:
”They want you to do it!”
”Do what?” Sebastian roars, leaning over the edge.
He wonders whether it’s really possible for anything to be worse down there than up here.
”They want you to jump, Sebastian!” the troll screams.

And Sebastian almost jumps. Because he knows how good it would have felt on the way down, and then maybe it doesn’t hurt anymore? Down there at the end of the falling down, maybe it will feel like it never hurt at all?
But the troll holds on to Sebastian’s hand. Its paw is also soft. It can’t be imagination, Sebastian thinks, because he doesn’t have that good of an imagination and he knows practically nothing about paws, does he? So he stays, and everything that hurts rushes straight through him, down into the abyss, laughing and howling.
”They can’t hurt you, not really, so they have to make you hurt yourself” the troll whispers.

Sebastian stands at the edge, out of breath.
”Are you sure?” he wonders.
”Are you sure there’s no breakfast?” the troll wonders.
”What do you mean?”
”I mean that sometimes you think you’re sure of something, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t be wrong. You could for example see a balloon and be sure that someone dropped it, but it might actually have run away.”
Sebastian starts hurting just behind his eyes.
”So you mean that you’re… sure or not sure?”
The troll scratches a few different spots of fur.
”I just mean that breakfast would have been nice.”
Sebastian apologizes, the troll nods disappointedly. Everything goes quiet. Then Sebastian’s feet start moving, without him being involved. The bubble starts rocking, at first almost nothing at all but then almost immediately all at once. Sebastian closes his eyes and holds his knees with his hands, because there’s nothing else to hold on to in here. He wants to throw up, but the troll places its paw at the back of his neck and then for a long while it feels like Sebastian takes off and floats. “Watch out”, the troll whispers, but Sebastian doesn’t react until the troll yells ”WATCH OUT!”. All of a sudden Sebastian gets water up his nose. Then in his eyes. He flails his arms wildly, feel his clothes get wet and his shoes fill up with sharp claws, something is pulling him down into the depths as if he’s drowning. HE’S DROWNING!
”Did you push…you frikking idiot…did you push me into…into the ocean?” he screams to the troll, panicking with his nose barely over the surface now.
”No, this isn’t an… ocean, it’s a…rain”, the troll pants.
They both gasp for air. The sky disappears behind huge waves that pound and splash them on purpose, hurt them just because they can. The troll’s fur gets dark and heavy and is sucked into the depth. Sebastian reaches his hand out and grabs its paw, an endless storm riding in over them.
”Where did the rain come from?” Sebastian yells in the troll’s ear, or at least where he thinks trolls might have ears.
”It’s tears!”, the troll roars back, where the troll thinks Sebastian has ears.
”Whose?”
”Yours! All the ones you’ve held back inside you! I told you, I TOLD YOU!!!”
”WHAT!?”
”THAT EITHER THE BUBBLE WILL CRACK! OR YOU WILL!”

Sebastian disappears under the surface, just for a few moments or maybe an entire life, before he struggles his way back up again. A flock of huge grey birds hover over them. Now and then they dive towards the water and snap at Sebastian’s shirt collar. He shields himself with his arm, their sharp beaks cut long, deep, bleeding cuts in him.
”Are they trying to…take me?” Sebastian screams with the rain and the wind raging and roaring across his cheeks.
”No, they’re trying to…scare you!”, the troll cries back while one of the birds takes off with a beakful of fur.
”Why?”
”Because they want you to stop swimming.”

Sebastian grips tightly onto the troll’s fur, closes his eyes even tighter, he doesn’t know who is keeping whom afloat in the end. They’re hurtled through the waters, down into the darkness, into a wall. They land in a petrifying silence, impossible to trust. But at last Sebastian opens his eyes again and realises that the two of them are lying coughing and snorting in the sand on a beach. The sun slowly dries fur and skin.
”Where are we?” Sebastian asks.
”At the bottom” the troll whispers.
”The bottom of what?”
”The bottom of you.”

Sebastian sits up. He’s got sand inside his clothes, in every place you don’t want sand to be and some places where Sebastian imagines that the sand wants to be just as little as Sebastian wants it there. It’s warm when he lifts it up in his palms, runs around his fingers until it finds its way between them. Sebastian looks as his knuckles, full of cracks that don’t hurt, and it’s not raining anymore. Maybe it never rains at the bottom, maybe the sun always rests on you here, never too much and never too little. Surrounding the beach are high, smooth cliffs, impossible to climb. This is a paradise, at the bottom of a hole. Along one of the cliff faces there is a rope, at its very end there’s a campfire burning. Sebastian carefully opens his palms towards the small, bouncing flames to feel the heat. The wind tickles his ear.
”Do it”, the wind shouts. ”Do it!”
Sebastian scratches his ear, looks at the troll in surprise. The troll points sadly to the fire.
”Everyone is waiting for you to do it, Sebastian.”
”What?”
”Decide that it’s easier to stay down here. And set fire to the rope.”
Sebastian blinks like his eyelashes have gotten stuck to his heart and have to be ripped from it every time his eyes open.
”I can’t live on the outside of the bubble”, he stammers at last.
”You can’t live in here either”, the troll replies.
The words shiver when the answer falls from Sebastian’s lips and the tears bring him to his knees:
”I don’t want it to hurt anymore. Does everybody else hurt like this?”
”I don’t know”, the troll admits.
”Why do I hurt when nothing has happened? I never laugh! Everybody normal laughs!”
The troll’s paws rub the spot where the troll probably has temples.
”Maybe it’s your laugh that’s broken. Not you. Maybe someone broke it. One time someone broke my favourite breakfast plate. I’m still a bit upset about it, actually.”
”How do you fix a laugh?” Sebastian whispers.
”I don’t know”, the troll admits.
”What if there’s something wrong with me after all?”
The troll looks to be taking this under serious consideration.
”Maybe something’s wrong with the wrong?”
”Huh?”
”Maybe the balloon isn’t even a balloon. Maybe you don’t have to be happy. Maybe you just have to be.”
”Be what?”
The troll writes something in the sand. Slowly and carefully, with its most beautiful letters. Then it promises:
”Just that.”
The troll dries the boy’s eyes. The boy asks:
”What do we do now?”
”Sleep”, the troll suggests.
”Why?” the boy asks.
”Because sometimes when you wake up there’s breakfast.”

The troll puts its paw under Sebastian’s cheek. Sebastian crawls up in it and falls asleep. From tiredness, not exhaustion. The troll sleeps around him, the boy’s tears sway slowly like crystals in the fur. When they wake up the fire has gone out. Sebastian blinks at the sky.
”What are you thinking about?” the troll asks.
”I’m thinking that maybe the balloon was neither dropped nor ran away. Maybe someone just let it go”, the boy whispers.
”Why would anyone let go of a balloon?” the troll asks.
”Because somebody wanted it to be happy.”
The troll nods gratefully, as if this new thought is a little gift. Sebastian stretches forward carefully and touches the rope.
”What’s up there?” he asks and points to the top of the cliffs where the rope is attached.
”A life. A hundred thousand years of all the best and all the worst”, the troll whispers.
”And in-between that?”
The troll smiles, almost happily.
”Oh, yes! THAT! All the in-between. You get to choose that. The best and the worst in life just happens to us, but the in-between… that’s what keeps us going.”
Sebastian’s breath bounces around in his throat.
”Will you come with me?”
”Yes. We’ll all come with you.”
Sebastian’s face crumples up like confused laundry.
”Who’s ’we’?”
”We”, the troll repeats.
When Sebastian looks out over the beach he sees a hundred thousand trolls.
”Who are they?”
The troll hugs Sebastian until Sebastian is only hugging air. The other trolls walk toward him and disappear, one by one, all in through the same crack. But they call out from the inside:
”We’re the voices in your head that tell you not to do it, Sebastian. When the others say ’jump’, stop swimming’, and ’set fire to the rope’. We’re the ones that tell you not to.”

Sebastian looks at his hands. One of the cracks closes up. Then another one. He holds the invisible scars against his cheek and wonders how you live with them instead of living in them. Then he closes his eyes again, sleeps all night there in the sand.
He dreams. Not that he’s running, like he usually does. Not that he’s falling or drowning. He dreams that he’s climbing now, up a rope, to the top of a cliff. When he wakes up he’s on his own next to the hole. He drops the rope and it falls to the bottom, lands with a soft thud. Far down there in the sand the boy can still read what the troll wrote when it said ”just be” and the boy said ”be what?”.

It says ”Sebastian”. Just that.

He sits with his feet dangling over the edge and awaits the sound of rain against the roof of the bubble. But nothing comes, and far away he sees something else, something he’s forgotten what it looks like. A line in the sky, from top to bottom. Sebastian has to turn his head to the side until his neck sounds like bubble wrap before he finally realises what it is.

A crack in the glass. Just the one. He can barely fit his hand through it. His mother touches his fingertips on the other side. He hears her shout his name into the bubble, and he whispers:
”You don’t have to scream, mom… I… can hear you.”
”Sebastian…”, she whispers then, the way only the person who gave a child its name can whisper it.
”Yes, mom”, he replies.
”What can I do for you?” she sobs.
Sebastian thinks for a long time before he finally answers:
”Breakfast. I’d like…breakfast.”

When his mother whispers that she loves him, snow starts falling from the sky. But when it lands inside the bubble it’s not frozen flakes, its freshly shed fur, small bits of fluffy fuzz that settles softly on Sebastian’s skin. It’s still early, maybe he doesn’t have words for this yet, but in time he might be able to talk about it. One day when someone says something and maybe he laughs for the first time. Or when he laughs as if it were the first time, over and over again. Laughs as if someone a very, very long time ago found the laugh on the ground in a forest, broken to pieces after a storm, and brought it home and nursed it until the laugh was strong enough to be released into the wild again. And then it takes off from the rooftops, straight up towards the heavens, as if someone let go of a balloon to make it happy. Maybe, in a hundred thousand years.

He blinks at the light, as the sunrise gently tugs at the clouds until the night lets go. There’s a note in his pocket. He’ll find it soon.
“Don’t jump”, it says, written with someone’s most beautiful letters.

”don’t jump
sebastian please
don’t jump
because we really really want to know
who you can become
if you don’t.”

Just that.