Silas is complicated.

She said the word apologetically, I think, aware even as she reached for it that it was a thin and cowardly word for whatever the truth was.

But it was the word on the file, the word the system had agreed upon, and she was handing it to me honestly along with her own evident discomfort at how little it explained.

Ten placements, no violence, no drugs, no law, no cruelty to other children.