The photographs were evidence.

The intake record was evidence.

The recording on my phone was evidence.

The medical report would be evidence.

And somewhere in a locked directory on my laptop at home sat six months of other evidence, of an entirely different crime, that I had gathered before any of this and never used.

I want to be honest that I was frightened, and in pain, and grieving the collapse of a life I had believed in that very morning.

All of that was true, at the same time.