And I understand why.

It is the kind of gesture that feels like justice in a single stroke.

But I will tell you the truth about that marker, which is that it did nothing, and I knew it did nothing even as I uncapped it.

It changed no account balance, froze no asset, altered not one line of the case I had spent nine months building.

It was theater, and it was for me, and it was the one purely emotional thing I permitted myself in a plan that was otherwise as cold and precise as an audit.