Indemnify

To make secure against loss, compensate for loss (v.)

Gina remembers everything from her early childhood. Little details: the smell of baby food, the feeling of falling after losing her balance, the feeling of her knees buckling when learning walk, the taste of her fingers in her mouth, and what it was like looking up at everyone.
The most vivid memory she has of her early childhood is of the time she wandered away from her parents in a kids' clothing outlet while her mother and father debated the virtues and vices of a pair of toddler's sandals. She crawled underneath a rack of frilled pink skirts and hobbled her way to exit, which led out into a huge parking lot. Somehow no one at the store saw her, no parent noticed her, and she didn't stop to look at anything. She made it to the door and she put her hands on the glass and pushed.
Gina remembers turning around at the sound of her mother screaming. She remembers the feeling of her mother's hands around her waist and the strength with which she picked her up. She remembers the look on her father's face, a terror hid by stoicism. And she remembers being carried to the aisle of the store that had baby leashes, and the feeling of her mother securing two of them to her, one on each wrist, and how she pulled the straps so hard that she winced with pain from the force.