The number belonged to a disconnected landline, but Malik's investigator traced it to a woman named Gloria Reyes. She answered his letter soon. Her grandchildren, Lucas and Amaya, had been visiting her when they wandered beyond the picnic area. Gloria thought Nora was a ranger because she spoke calmly and carried a map. At the hospital, a deputy told the family Nora had ignored a closure and that the children might be blamed for distracting her. Frightened, Gloria took them home without leaving their information.

Gloria brought the children to a recorded interview. Amaya, fourteen, described Nora kneeling several feet from the rail and sliding the black coin across the ground. Nora told her to focus on its compass points and move one foot each time she named a direction. When Amaya reached solid ground, a rail post shifted beneath Nora's hand. Lucas remembered a blue strip snapping from the bolt as she fell. Their accounts matched Evelyn's recording and the plastic caught in the coin.

Nora did not watch the interview until Malik explained that the children had chosen to participate and could stop at any time. Amaya spoke directly to the camera. She said Nora had not been reckless, but she also did not want Nora turned into a fearless hero. Nora had been scared; her voice shook. That detail reached my daughter more deeply than praise. For weeks, she had believed courage required a missing memory to be filled with certainty. Amaya gave her back the fear, and therefore the choice she had made despite it.

The county agreed to mediation. It funded Nora's remaining rehabilitation, covered adaptive equipment, and created an inspection schedule for public overlooks. The agreement did not require silence. Nora insisted on that point, though she declined interviews. She wanted the record corrected without becoming a symbol strangers could simplify. Before signing, she asked that Evelyn's radio archive be copied to the local historical library. A warning ignored once, she said, should not have to survive another person's kitchen table to be heard.