They sat in
stunned silence for a beat and then the chair abruptly dismissed her.
"I was shocked," Sarah said, earnestly. Tears, long held back
now slowly slid down her face, marking the planes and valleys
with ripples that winked on and off reflecting the room lights
"And I didn't want to even say it was mine. But I did, because it was."
Diana left the hearing room shortly after Sarah to ask Helen,
her last witness, to come in. The whole group was in the hallway
gathered around Sarah as she came out of the hearing room door.
"What did they do to her in there," demanded Roz, angrily.
"They were pretty nasty. They fired questions at her so fast
that she didn't understand what they were asking half the time.
They all but called her a liar, poor kid," answered Diana.
Helen came over. "You tell them I'll be in just as soon
as Sarah is calmed down. Sadistic bastards!"
Chapter 22
Diana returned to the hearing room alone and sat down.
Addressing the panel, she said firmly, "My next witness will be
in shortly. She is helping Sarah because you upset her so much."
Anuse and Henry looked pleased.
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