Forgery does not only steal your property.

It tries to steal your certainty about your own life, so that you will hesitate, and second-guess, and fail to fight.

I felt the whisper.

And then my training answered it, the way it always does: the document is a claim, and a claim is only as good as the facts behind it, and I had been on another continent, provably, on the day this claim says I stood in a King County office.

The paper said one thing.