Silence in the face of evil does not always look like violence.

Sometimes it looks like a mother laying out the dinner plates, or a husband easing a bedroom door shut, or a father assuring everyone that it is all being done for the good of the family.

But when a person knows the truth and chooses to protect the guilty rather than the harmed, they have already made their choice.

And choices, always, carry their consequences.

Mine, in the end, was to listen.