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Silva spent most of the night talking to his mother in the room she prepared for him. She hugged him all through and only finally let go when he said he had to sleep.

But he didn't sleep after she left. He used the window to get to the top of the roof and sat there. After a while, his sister Sage came to the roof as well, like she knew he was there.

She sat beside him and they both looked at the stars in the sky. After a long while, she finally spoke.

"I don't know what to say at this point, I don't know how to feel after everything that just happened.

I don't know what to say after finding out that I had a little brother and my father tried to get rid of him," she said.

"You don't have to feel bad. I overdid things on my side, even the way I reacted to you the first time we met," Silva said.

"If so, then let's start afresh. We may not know each other, but you haven't done anything wrong to me or anyone.