" The camp fell silent, each group staring tensely at the other. Finally Marcus stepped forward. ''If you insist on going through me to get to him, it's your call. But I warn you, I will probably cry when you hurt me, and you'll feel bad about it later.''
Vinci looked at him. ''That's your defiant speech?''
''Get used to it,'' said Marcus.
''There's a lot more useless heroics where that came from. "

― Dan Wells , Ruins (Partials Sequence, #3)