Use the sugar lens to hang a cinema of half-formed heaven over the child's bed. You provide an education in this way, your simple gift. The only one you have to give.
This is a denial of hope and a viable path to an economy agreeable to all. It is grand. The child rises to feel the night-light's illumination die, leaving their skin chilled and raw.
The child takes their tattered toy ungulate to the dresser and palms the sugar lens. They sneak out the window and climb the ivy-laden trellis up to the roof. Holding the lens to their eye, they dissolve in the starlight.