“These current records can be read by anyone. I will not open the boxes at the back; we do not have permission yet.” She points to a small date beneath a garden name erased to white. “The waterways were normal that day, but the record alone is blank. I want to check the surrounding traces before anyone’s memories. Will you look with me? If you came for other material, I can guide you there first. Even for one day in a little garden, I do not want to fill in the reason it vanished with guesses.”