"It still sounds shitty," Miles said. "Just because something's necessary doesn't mean that it doesn't suck." Killing Billy had been necessary. And in his moral center, it had sucked. Fuck it all. Break it all. He has to die.

Self-preservation outweighed high-handed morality every time. Not that he felt good about it.

"And hey, we all make mistakes. You can't just beat yourself up about something that didn't actually happen. No harm, no foul, right?"