Milo found the form while digitizing records for the Graybridge Transit Museum. It had been folded behind the old map, not cataloged separately. Soraya reported losing access to a staff corridor during the storm and wrote that her infant niece and nephew remained aboard aircraft 618 with another cleaner. The form was stamped received forty minutes before I found the twins. Across the bottom, a supervisor had written duplicate, no action, though no duplicate appeared in the archive.
Lena asked whether I remembered a brown-coated cleaner. I remembered three workers entering during the diversion and two leaving when buses arrived. The third had worn a reflective vest over a brown coat and pushed a cart toward the rear galley. I had assumed the cleaning supervisor counted her team. In my original statement, that detail became staff serviced cabin. I had accepted the airline's phrasing because exhaustion made official language feel more reliable than memory.
I retrieved my copy of the statement from a metal file box. The signature was mine, but several sentences sounded like safety announcements. My handwritten notes mentioned a cleaner's cart blocking the aisle and formula smell near the galley. Neither detail appeared in the typed version. Milo photographed both documents side by side. I felt the old night sharpen around facts I had once considered too small to defend.
The map showed a locker alcove beneath Platform Four beside the sealed passage. One locker number was circled in purple pencil. The twins wanted me to visit the station as a witness when the museum opened it. I asked what they hoped to find. Milo said facts. Lena said proof they had not been left by someone who simply walked away. I warned them a locker could be empty or contain something painful. Lena answered that emptiness would still be an answer chosen after looking.