Eve looked at the pages.
"Malachai will know I went in knowing it was technically outside Court law," she said.
"Malachai already knows that," Raphael said. "He's not going to learn anything from your testimony he doesn't already know." A pause. "What he doesn't know....what he can't account for....is what it sounds like when you say it out loud. In that room. In front of everyone."
She picked up the pages.
Read the last paragraph again.
I went in because she was frightened and she was mine to protect and no provision written in any century of Court law was going to change that. I would do it again. I want the panel to know that clearly. I would do it again.
She set them down.
"Okay," she said.
****
It was past two in the morning when Seraphine finally made them stop.
