He didn’t.

But it cost him not to.

And I understood, watching him, that this was not an act of revenge but an act of honesty — his refusal, at the very end, to let a lie about his family stand in a legal document that would outlive him.

He would not reward the people who had failed him.

But he took no pleasure in it.

He only, at last, told the truth on paper, and it grieved him to have to.