"This is not a good time for you to be half naked. I'm losing to much blood to have an erection." He wasn't really paying attention to what he was saying. He was trying to remember the elevator override codes.

He fumbled his badge out of his pants pocket and found the hidden pad recessed into the wall by the elevator buttons. He let his badge get scanned and typed in Stephanie's birth date.

"If Papai doesn't make it out," which sounded like Marcelo had some doubts. He did. He had lots of doubts after seeing Luiza dying. All his damn fault. "I'll have to go back home."

New York had been a nice place to live and work until today, but São Paulo would always be his home.