TangShi sat motionless on the couch, silently awaiting Linlin showing in the Detective who she assumed was who rang the bell a moment ago. She tried not to fidget with her nails as she swallowed hard and concentrated on deep breaths to calm her nerves. All night she had tossed and turned, going over the statement she would have to give today, and she wasn’t looking forward to going through everything again. Even with blank spaces it somehow had begun to traumatize her now she knew the truth.

Her dreams had been a torturous mix of nightmares and flashes of memory, and yet she still was none the wiser to...