Jessi did not spell that word to save herself; she was already saved.

She spelled it so that the man who did this could not do it again, to her or to anyone, and could not smile his way out of it.

That is the instinct of a genuinely good person, revealed in the one circumstance that strips away all performance and shows what is actually underneath — and what was underneath Jessi Vance, at the very worst moment of her life, was a woman still trying to protect other people.

I have known heroes with medals who had less of it in them.