The house had interior cameras because Clara once worried the baby monitor might fail. My mother mocked us for it, called us paranoid. She never bothered asking where the cameras were.
The kitchen. The nursery. The living room.
All recording.
All automatically backed up to cloud storage under my name.
For the next two days, I quietly gathered everything. Video of my mother yelling while Clara stirred soup with trembling hands. Video of Clara asking to lie down while my mother snapped, “After you clean the kitchen.” Video of the baby crying while my mother sat three feet away scrolling through her phone.
And the final clip.
Clara collapsing.
My mother eating.