Aveline was quiet for a moment. She was looking at him the way people sometimes do when they're deciding how much further to follow a thread.
"You didn't call campus security," she said. "You didn't take Tyler to the student services building or whatever the appropriate channel is at that hour."
"Campus security would have taken statements, filed a report, started the process," Mike said. "Tyler has been avoiding formal process since a previous attempt at it made things worse at another institution."
"Taking him there at two in the morning without asking him would have been its own kind of violation."
She was still watching him. "He told you that."
"He told me enough. I filled in the rest."
"From twelve seconds of footage."
"After an hour of conversation earlier in the week," Mike said. "The footage was just confirmation."
She sat with that. The clock on the mantle moved through a few seconds.
