Chapter 5 - LENORA SAYS SHE WAS TRYING TO HELP
Lenora’s statement was colder.
She admitted arranging the stylist.
“I believed Ivy needed a proper haircut.”
“Did Sebastian consent?”
“No.”
“Did Ivy?”
“She is seven.”
That answer told me enough.
Then:
“Were you planning to force the haircut?”
“No.”
“What if Ivy refused?”
“I expected Sebastian to act like a father instead of a mourner.”
The investigator asked:
“What does that mean?”
“He has allowed Elara’s death to organize the child.”
There.
Lenora believed Ivy’s long hair was grief behavior.
Did any therapist say that?
No.
Ivy’s therapist said the opposite.
Her preference was normal.
It caused no functional impairment.
She tolerated trims.
Washed it.
Let it be brushed.
No pathological attachment.
Then:
“Why before wedding photographs?”
Lenora answered:
“Because Marjorie deserved one day without Elara in the room.”
The interviewer paused.
“Elara is deceased.”
“You know what I mean.”
Everyone eventually heard that sentence from my mother.
Then the actual clipper incident.
Lenora said she had less than two seconds to react before I entered.
Video from a guest’s phone later showed otherwise.
From the first buzz to my entrance:
approximately six seconds.
Marjorie made one pass.
Ivy recoiled.
Marjorie spoke.
Raised clippers again.
Lenora watched.
Could Lenora physically have stopped her?
Maybe.
Did law require a grandmother to intervene instantly in every assault?
Not necessarily.
But her earlier planning mattered.
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She had created the situation.
Then she watched the result.
