Eli reached for the ledger before the clinician asked about memory.
She let him touch the cover, then said, “Tell me what you can without reading first. Afterward we can compare the record.”
Tessa sat near the door. She had supplied the postcoastal observations with Eli’s consent, but she was not conducting this assessment. The clinician had a copy of the relevant functional statement, the earlier restrictions and the later loss report. She had not requested the whole private book.
Eli described the first trust experience he could understand in writing and could no longer personally recall. He described the older neighbor-name gap and the missing cadence associated with Darius. He knew these losses mattered. Their importance did not help him recover them.
“Any change in that since your last report?”
“No return.”
“Any new absence you’ve noticed?”
“Not one I can identify.”
