Abel sets his jaw, teeth clenched tight as he tries to accept what Sheehan is saying. It had taken him months of talking about what happened and thinking about how he was going to go about getting justice for the victims of Project Thebes, but he'd only just started counting himself as one of them. That what happened wasn't his fault.

"I don't want to feel like a victim." It's an extremely hard thing to swallow. "I knew better and I did it anyways."