" Sam, can you, you know, like burn that concrete off her hands?”
“No. I can’t aim that precisely.”
“I don’t even know what can be done,” Edilio said as he fed the girl another microscopic bite of food. “You try and break that stuff off with a sledge hammer or something, or even a hammer and a chisel, it’s going to really hurt. Probably break every bone in her hands, man.”
“Who would have done this to her?” Lana wondered.
“That’s a Coates Academy uniform,” Astrid answered. “We’re probably not far from there. "

― Michael Grant