PART 5 — Before Was Not a Time

Taylor asked for an adult meeting at family services.

Ruth helped arrange it with the appropriate staff and the limits of the current order understood.

Lily would not sit in the next room listening to us argue about whether her fear was reasonable.

Contact arrangements and statements about the incident would be handled separately from her visit.

Taylor arrived carrying a purse and a folder of school papers.

She placed them on the table, then moved the folder slightly to make it square with the edge.