Noah stood up.
At first, no one reacted. It was just a kid standing in a courtroom. But then he reached into his backpack and pulled out something small.
A flash drive.
“Grandma told me to give them this,” he said, voice steady, “if they started lying.”
Everything stopped.
Not dramatically. Not loudly. Just… completely.
Victor Hale tried to recover first, of course.
“Your Honor, this is highly irregular—”
But Judge Carter raised her hand.
And just like that, he was quiet.
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