Ethics! My brain shrieked. Morality! While I babbled things into the quiet of the forest I'll never get back, along the lines of, but only paraphrased ultimately to, "What the actual is wrong with you?"

Leah's sullen reaction should have shut me up, but I was on a rolling snowball of disbelief and revulsion I was positive would be the end of me.

Well, it was the end of something, that was certain, when she finally cut off my random, horrified babbling with a sharp jab ...