Not one dollar of it.

It was my grandfather’s money, settled in 1994, for a child not yet born, and from the moment Silas Thorne existed it was his, and the only thing standing between him and an accounting of it was that his father had made a private vow in a truck in a car park and had decided that asking a question was the same as asking for a handout.

Asking for an accounting of your own son’s trust is not taking anything from anybody.

It is the single most basic thing a guardian does.