This is a fact, and facts are the only thing a court actually believes.” She tapped the page.

“You did the single hardest and smartest thing a person in your position can do.

You didn’t react.

You documented.

Do you have any idea how rare that is?” I told her I did, because I had spent a decade learning it in rooms where the stakes were only money, and had only now applied it in the one room where the stakes were my mind.

She nodded slowly.