“I need you to hear me very clearly.

There is nothing you could have just told me that would make me send you back.

Nothing.

Do you understand?

You didn’t confess to a crime.

You told me that you love your little sister so much that you set your own life on fire ten times rather than betray her.

Silas, that is not the thing that makes a mother give a boy back.

That is the thing that tells her she got the best son in the entire state of Ohio.