Eleanor caught her wrist and pointed back toward a pile of dishes.

“Finish that first,” she said.

Maya pulled free and went to her son.

The clip ended when the motion sensor stopped recording.

I replayed the scene only once.

More viewing would not make it less true.

Julian copied the original clips to a secure drive, logged the times, and warned me against editing even a second.

Then he found another message in the account export.