Enough in her system to confirm ingestion within the window the police had already documented. Clare read the report twice. Then a third time. “That’s not possible,” she said aloud.
She forwarded it to the officer listed on her citation — the one who had processed her arrest — attaching a short message she rewrote three times before sending: I did not ever knowingly take this. Her hands were still shaking when the reply came. It wasn’t disbelief. Or concern. It was procedure.