“I know.”

“I need you to keep saying what happened accurately, even when it’s painful.”

Taylor looked at the school drawings.

One showed a gray box.

I asked whether the teacher had explained it, then stopped before treating the drawing as a forensic account.

A five-year-old could draw a box for many reasons.

Her professionals could decide how to approach it; I did not need to interrogate her later because I saw it.

Taylor said Evelyn had become too strict.