“Taken.”

They put the cuffs on at the table.

Daniel kept checking his watch even with his wrists together in front of him, and his lawyer leaned in and said something about the accounts, and Daniel said very clearly, “What do you mean, frozen?”

His lawyer straightened his jacket and said nothing at all.

I watched the two of them work that out in silence, the way the whole county had been working things out in silence for three years, and I found I had nothing to say to him.

Not one word.