Against which:

A title in one name.

A notary’s journal entry from the fourth of September 2024 reading principal not present, written by a woman who has refused on that ground two hundred and eleven times since 2004 and who had never heard of my family.

Eleven words in a paramedic’s free-text field about blood that had begun to dry.

An email a twenty-year-old sent to herself on the second of September 2024 with the subject line in case.

And one page, read out loud in a courtroom on the second of June 2025 by a twenty-year-old in a cardigan who could not be cross-examined.