All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.

Ignore them. They don't know what it is to make a difficult decision." "You wouldn't have done it, I bet." "That is only because I have been taught to be cautious when I don't know all the information, and you have been taught that risks can produce great rewards.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.

And then the screaming begins.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.