Where the two conflict I have used the contemporaneous version, because that is what I do.

Here is the morning.

2:04 a.m. Curtis does a diaper change in the nursery.

Esme screams.

Not a cry — a scream, and he has never once disputed this.

Perla is in bed and hears it and comes to the door.

He says: “She’s all right.

She got her leg caught.”