They showed exactly how they treated families they considered unimportant.
And that evidence became the reason they ultimately lost everything.
Today, Emily still occasionally asks questions about courtrooms and justice while sitting beside me at the kitchen counter doing homework. Sometimes she wears one of my old robes around the house while pretending to hold imaginary hearings involving stuffed animals and missing cookies.
Whenever that happens, I quietly remember the terrified little girl trapped inside that dark storage room.
Then I remember the moment she realized someone came back for her.
Because children never forget who protected them when they were afraid.
And neither do the people who hurt them when they believed nobody powerful would ever stand in their way.
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