And Ottavia’s voice came through the speakers, clear to three hundred people, saying that after everything the family had done for her, Yvaine should be grateful she still had a roof over her head.

The audio was enough.

I had chosen, deliberately, not to show the worst of what the shutter had caught — the point was not to make a spectacle of Yvaine’s suffering, but to let the room hear these people say, in their own voices, exactly who they were.

Chapter 25 — Turn It Off

Ottavia shot to her feet.

“Turn that off.