Jack had to think about that, but not much at all. "No," he said with certainty. "I knew what the consequences were, and why those consequences had to exist. I wouldn't be here now if I wasn't willing to face them at some point."

He looked meaningfully at Geddoe. "I know why people think I shouldn't have, and in a lot of ways they're not wrong. But my actions saved innocent people from being killed and mutilated." Our actions. "That counts for something. It has to."