You were conscious.

You had a broken wrist and a cut on your head and you walked up that embankment and you went past your son lying in the grass and you did not stop.”

“I didn’t know he was alive.”

“You didn’t check.”

“He survived—”

“He didn’t speak for two years!”

The corridor had gone completely silent.

And Adriana Vance turned and pointed at the bed and said the sentence that the deputy state’s attorney would quote in a filing eleven weeks later: