It had cost Julian his life.

He had done it alone because he had to, because there was no one else, and I honored him for it beyond words, but I did not have to do it his way, and I did not want Grace to grow up thinking that was the only way.

The whole point of a system of law, when it works, is that ordinary people do not have to become martyrs to see the truth served.

I had carried the evidence alone for ten years because that was the promise.