[ Adam continues to give him a bit of a strange look, curious, perhaps a little confused, but any kind of intimidation Gabriel had over him a couple of months ago is entirely gone.

The boy makes a face, thinking. ]

Why do you keep saying you're being punished for something? Who's punishing you?

You keep talking like someone's watching you all the time. Or that you're here because you did something. But everyone else is going through the same thing, and not everyone's done something terrible. Unless you're saying everyone did.

Maybe you deserve it, but not everything's about you.

[ It all just comes out, very simplistic logic, but the topic isn't unheard of between them. ]

I just don't get it.