What I did tell her — at eleven, on the advice of a psychologist named Josefina Prieto and after four sessions of preparing for it — is that her mother closed the curtain and then immediately ran down the stairs, and that both of those are true.

Wren thought about that for a long time.

Then she said: “So why didn’t she take me to the hospital?”

Which is the correct question, and which is the question this entire account is about, and I did not have an answer for her at eleven and I have a partial one now.

Part Eight: Two Minutes

Nita stopped filming at 4:39:18.

At 4:41:07 she called 911.