The piece ran on a Sunday, which Claire Ashworth had told me was the highest circulation day and which I had accepted as information rather than as something requiring a response. I had approved nothing in it except my own quotes, which I had delivered in two sessions at a location I chose, recorded with my consent, transcribed and sent back to me for accuracy review. I had corrected two factual errors and let everything else stand, including the parts that were uncomfortable, because the deal I had made with myself when I called Claire back was that the truth would be allowed to be the truth as far as it went.
It went far enough.
The headline was: *The Doctor Who Disappeared.* Subheading: *How Seraphina Vale walked away from a dynasty, built a career on two continents, and became the su
