I nodded.
"That's why they started that young," I replied. "Dad said it was more helpful to have your first "experience" that young, so you can get it over with and work past it while we "have all the time in the world"."
Kieran gaped at me for a moment.
"What the actual f***k?" He blurted. "That's fu.cked up, and not at all what I meant."
"What?" I asked, confused.
"Like, yeah, the killing that young was super uncalled-for, but had your dad done it differently, it might not have been so traumatizing," he said.
"What are you fu.cking saying right now?" I asked, frowning at him.
Kieran rolled his eyes.
"You forget I started out young too. Younger than you, actually," he said. "I have trauma from the things I've done too, Pierce, but... I did them for the safety of my family. Not for
