Neutral Omens

Adam's voice went quiet as he stared at the ground. "I stopped a rape, you know. And a strangulation. Helped someone that got shot. Buried someone when the ceilin' fell on him. Did surgery on someone who got attacked and was bleedin' inside. Carried someone up three flights of stairs after he'd been tortured for a day and had his mind violated twice. And stopped a boy from havin' nightmares of the worst kind. Do you think it's easy, Bri? I gotta decide what's important every single day. So I don't know what to tell you. If I made it so nothin' bad ever happened, people'd never learn anythin'. There'd be no consequences to their actions. This way, bad as it is, things'll change. I hope you can understand that."