Confess! Did your relationship with your parents ever recover?

“That’s pretty personal...” Silas admits. “But the short answer is: yes, we’re fine. I think I got off pretty easy, actually, considering what I’ve done...

After the initial shock of seeing their son again, seven years older and seven inches taller, they unleashed a wrath unlike any that Silas had experienced before. Seven years worth of anger, fear, and despair over losing their only child, finally released. “Oh, they were rightfully pissed, don’t get me wrong, but I think they were mostly... worried about me. And I missed them too–sometimes, when things were really bad, they were all I thought about. If they were doing okay. If they believed I was alive or gave up on me. I remember worrying that they wouldn’t want me back, after everything I’ve done.” Silas blinks hard and rubs at his eyes, as if there was dust stuck there. “Turns out I didn’t anything to worry about there.”