And the missing million is eleven years of Celestine taking from it, in small pieces, through consultancy invoices and an events company that has one director.
Then I turned to the second section of that file.
And I found out what that foundation is called.
It is named after me.
It was registered in 2014 using my birth name — Petra Fisk — which is a name I stopped using at eighteen, when I took Norah’s.
There is a logo with my initials in it.
There is a paragraph on the website about the young woman it is named for, who lost a leg to bone cancer at ten and went on to build a company, and who prefers to keep her involvement private.
That last clause is the piece of work in all of this that I admire most, in the way you admire a good lock.
Because it explains, in six words, why nobody has ever seen me at anything. Why there is no photograph. Why a donor who asked would be told, gently, that she does not do events.