At the top of the report, I wrote one question:

What can we actually verify?

Then I began reading.

Weeks earlier, Aaron had pointed toward row five as if my place in his world was his to assign.

I walked off the aircraft without knowing that the ownership records would change the direction of my life.

The gold emblem hadn’t given me power that morning.

It had reminded me to examine authority that already existed.

The trust documents had always been there.