The Troop

by Nick Cutter

Leaving the man out here went against just about every tenet of the Hippocratic Oath, but an aspect of good doctoring was triage. You couldn’t save everyone. Sad fact of life. So you saved the youngest, or the ones with the best hope of survival.

It’s all how you present yourself, son. Draw yourself up to your full height. Stick your chest out. If you look like you’ve got all the answers, people will naturally assume that you do.

You end up hurting the things you love just because you’re trying so hard.

Adults could be just as stupid as kids. Stupider even, because often they didn’t have to answer to anybody.