Prescott.

We hear it four times a year and it’s almost always true.”

Chadworth looked at the February drawing for a long time.

“Can I keep these?”

“They’re your daughter’s.”

He gave the folder to Theresa the next morning, and Theresa gave it to the county attorney, and the phone-number change — a small administrative act, performed in a parent portal in November, weeks before anything visible happened — became one of the four or five facts that made the endangerment count stick, because it was the earliest dated evidence in the entire file that the isolation had been deliberate and planned rather than the byproduct of a bad temper.

He also changed the emergency contact list at both schools that afternoon, from his phone, sitting in the car outside.