The witness pointed to the wrong doorway on the map.
Sera did not correct him immediately. She turned the page until it faced the same way as the courtyard outside and asked him to show where he had been standing.
“Here. Beside the delivery rail.”
“That rail is on the other side.”
He looked again. “Then here.”
Eli felt his first explanation of Mira’s actions shift with the pencil. A few minutes earlier he had been ready to place her at a particular door at a particular time, holding an object just before the trial disturbance. The witness was telling the truth as well as he could, and the location had already moved.
They stood at the safe public perimeter of the trial site. Beyond the barrier, staff were still checking damage from the earlier disturbance and routing equipment around closed sections. The evacuation had given the team another set of tired faces to count. Mira’s warning had helped clear a crowded district. Now this man wanted them to understand something he had seen before all of that.
Tessa asked whether he was comfortable showing the location from the perimeter. He said yes. He did not want his name announced to the people gathered near the barrier.
