This feels like what therapy might feel like. Like what a conversation with a counselor would be like back in the school if he got to live through the summer. It just hit like a baseball out of nowhere to hear someone older than him acknowledge that he was doing well.

Because this? All of this mental bullshit? Doesn't feel manageable.

"If you're a soldier, why the hell are you still in here with me? Shouldn't you be fighting those fucking monsters?" Soldiers were supposed to protect people. This, to Billy, didn't feel like Steve was doing his 'job'.