The clean clip arrived edited before Jade saw the original.
That told her enough.
It came through three public accounts, Caelin's office inbox, and one shelter volunteer who looked ashamed as soon as Waddell asked where she had found it.
The clip was twelve seconds long.
Ty's skeleton filled one side of the split screen. The old question sat on the other side, held up in Waddell's hand where a stranger had cropped away the table, the cot, and Tessa's bandaged hand.
If Tessa has evidence in one hand and a wounded stranger in front of her, what does she save first?
Then Ty's answer came, the stranger, and the edit cut there. It left out the route, the cost, Nora in a hospital bed, and Tessa on the floor with a camera aimed at tile because faces kept turning into handles. It left out Jade's damaged hearing and the shelter full of people trying to keep Mason out of frame.
It kept the part that traveled.
