He promised no warrant, no arrest, no particular result.

After we hung up, I sat in the visitors’ room with my laptop.

I downloaded public corporate information and saved it with the date.

I copied the messages Hannah had sent me into a working folder while keeping the originals untouched.

I wrote down which statements were mine, which were hers, and which I had heard from the hospital.

For the first time that day, I could do something with my hands that did not involve waiting.

But the work did not calm me in the way I expected.