"we didn't do a thing to stop it, and maybe we should have felt guilty, but training had taught us it was for the best. Getting involved was feeding our own need to be wanted, creating drama, making life more difficult for no reason. Making ourselves feel guilty was being self indulgent.
so there we were, all of us, our instincts honed to function in a crisis, standing on the edge with our hands formlessly open in the space before us, gripping air in twitchy gestures, not jumping in, not helping, and not feeling a damn thing.