LENA

The message did not come from Cassie.

This was the first thing I understood, and it was the thing that took the longest to settle, because it was the thing that changed the nature of what I was looking at from a nuisance into something that required a different category of response. If it had come from Cassie directly it would have been a violation of the restraining order and nothing more, the specific and manageable problem of a woman who had not yet understood the dimensions of what she had already done and was adding to the documentation in ways that would be useful to us later. I...