SAFE BY DESIGN · EPISODE 03

A Message From Someone We Know

The name was right and the picture was right. The hurry was wrong, and a nine-year-old noticed.

On Fridays Tara comes to Riya's after school, and the cousins get the kitchen counter while Riya cooks. Arjun had the family tablet and the building game he plays with Kabir from his class.

Kabir's name popped up in the game chat, twice. The message was a link in capital letters, three exclamation marks, and the words hurry before it's gone.

Arjun grinned, then stopped. Kabir writes the way he talks: slowly, in small letters, mostly about dragons. He has never once told anyone to hurry.

“Tara, is this Kabir? It doesn't sound like Kabir.”

Arjun, 9