From the beginning.”

“It proves intent,” Phoebe corrected, gently but precisely, because she never let a hopeful overstatement stand.

“It proves she set out, deliberately, to construct a specific narrative — that she wanted things to look a certain way rather than merely reporting how they were.

That is enormously important.

But it is not, by itself, the whole case.

Now that we know she was building a narrative, we go and prove, element by element, which pieces of that narrative she fabricated.