"Well, there's your problem," said Raph. "The ones you're dealing with are probably all trumped up on their own importance. And that's how you get convinced you're always right. When everything you do is pretty much thankless and just gets you into trouble anyway, but you have to do it because you're the one that's there, that's something that never stops making you feel small."

He gestured with his hands. "Because it's just you standing between innocent people and whatever or whoever that's gunning for them and that means you have to admit you're wrong whenever you're wrong or you might mess things up. And if you do mess up someone might get hurt and nobody's going to clean up your mess but you."