“But it didn’t. It went through.”
I stared at the screen and felt my anger sharpen into a weapon. A crossed-out digit in a legal acknowledgment isn’t a typo. It’s a hesitation. It’s an opening.
“Can you print that image?” I asked.
She nodded once. “Yes. And I’ll print the intake metadata too.”
When she handed me the pages, they were warm from the printer continue reading …