Helen Bowersock dictated it and I typed it on the school computer in the vocational office at about four in the afternoon on the twenty-first of October 2024.

It is one page.

Eleven lines.

I am going to put the whole of it in, because it is the most expensive document I have ever produced and it took me eleven minutes.

Dear Mrs. Thorne and Ms. Thorne,

I write as the father and legal guardian of Silas A.

Thorne, born the tenth of June 2006, who I understand to be the sole beneficiary of the Thorne 1994 Trust.

I request, on his behalf and in that capacity: