“About what time?”

“After three.

Before the school bus came.”

Lena wrote it down.

Then she asked everyone to stop posting assumptions about Teresa online.

The woman with the phone lowered it reluctantly.

Inside the house, another officer photographed the kitchen and checked for immediate hazards.

Lena located a printed medication schedule taped inside a cabinet.

Eli’s initials appeared beside times and small boxes for each dose.

Nearly all the boxes were neatly marked, but the final entries were blank.

A handwritten note read: PICK UP REFILL TODAY.

ASK ABOUT PRIOR AUTHORIZATION.

Teresa had not been carrying medicine away from her son.

She had been trying to get more.