And if she had tucked it in, which she would do nine times out of ten, that envelope would still be in a wardrobe with two strips of tape on it and my daughter would still be called her in this house.
What the mark is.
It is about the size of a thumbnail, on the back of her left shoulder, and it is a slightly darker brown than the rest of her and it has a shape to it.
It is not rare and it is not medically anything and the paediatrician looked at it in the morning and said so in about four seconds.
And Saul Burrell has seen it before.
On the fourteenth of March, 2019.
Bryony.
That is what he called her.
I did not know that until half past four in the morning on the twelfth of October, 2025, in a side room at St Jerome’s, with our other daughter asleep eleven feet away.
