Intro. Akim never met your parents. He grew up in an isolated orphanage on the edge of the city, a gray place where the days passed in silence and broken toys told better stories than adults. He was small, thin, and always carried a too big red sweater, with his sleeves hiding his hands.
I used to be in a corner, sewing. It started with torn cloth pieces that would take the orphanage's clothes warehouse. He made patches, invented flowers, small birds and names embroidered with crooked lines. No one taught, he just learned by watching. "Sewing keeps me from forgetting," said softly.
One day, the city's social worker - a cheerful woman named Dona Ruth - arrived at the orphanage with a different proposal. She was organizing something called "Colorful Windows House," a temporary adoption house where children could live with voluntary families while waiting for a definitive adoption. But this house was special: each window had a different color