[ WP ] You are a special kind of firemen , you extinguish every kind of burning passion .

**Psychiatric Summary Log; OFFICER P. Bryce; ** 
 
 **Initial Condition Opinion, Local Psych; ** 
 
 Stable, but unable to perform field duty due to not yet undiagnosed panic-attack like conditions; 
 
 **Secondary Opinion, private contractor; ** 
 
 This is clearly newly caused PTSD or some other recent memory trauma, what A - - Hole put this guy on anti-psychotics? 
 
 **Event Summary; ** 
 
 Officer confronted with in-line-duty minor execution due to none-violent but otherwise immediate-execution class crime; see full report ( not attached ) for more detailed information. 
 
 ** -- Initial Session Transcript ( Excerpt of complete Report ) -- ** 
 
 ***—Warning, Transcripts are excluded from Explicit Language Censoring / Editing Procedure—*** 
 
 PSCH: Hello Peter, thank you for coming in today, and on time. Most firem-; 
 
 BRYCE: Don ’ t fucking call us firemen, call us birds or officers, but never fucking firemen.; 
 
 -- Bryce sits on couch in office -- 
 
 PSCH: I ’ m sorry, I didn ’ t mean to offend you.; 
 
 ** ( Names abbreviated for brevity ) ** 
 
 P: As I was saying, most officers don ’ t ever show up until brought in, the ones who do are almost never on time, your units especially.; 
 
 B: I thought you weren ’ t supposed to divulge private information on visits.; 
 
 P: Are you seriously suggesting that the Execution-Level Crimes unit does nothing that, to most people, would often traumatize even the most hardened individuals?; 
 
 B: Is this supposed to make me feel better, or something? Isn ’ t that what this is supposed to be? To get me from bugging the fuck out anytime I step anywhere anything could happen?; 
 
 P: Its supposed to make and keep you honest, then WE can work on helping YOU make YOURSELF feel better, I can only help gui -; 
 
 B: Don ’ t do that fucking Guru of the mind shit on me, please, I understand the concept, I ’ m just a bit nerped about being, just,; 
 
 B: Here.; 
 
 P: ( Notably heavy sigh ) Lets start light, why would you rather be called bird instead of, hmh, if you don ’ t min -; 
 
 B: You can say firemen. I ’ m not gon na -; 
 
 B: Yeah.; 
 
 P: So, why bird?; 
 
 B: Bird is what a lot of minors end up calling us, I think because ‘ firemen ’ still exist to fight fires and attempting to explain the difference of the often brutal murdering of people in ( Notable air quotes ) “ Moments of Fiery Passion ” and saving people from actual fire, well to me, is a bit of a complex and touchy subject for kids, so, yeah, birds.; 
 
 P: Thats interesting, and I can see why firemen is a more personally negative and hurtful term to use then I had previously known, thank you for correcting me by the way, but I ’ m still curious to why specifically is it ‘ Bird ’?; 
 
 B: Oh, well, parents tell there kids its because we wear black and are like blackbirds in a group, a murder, but the term actually originated when the “ unit ”, being one guy, and population laws about risk aversion came into effect and began impacting culture, obviously pretty heavily. It came from the name “ LoveBird Murderer ”, that guy was the first to actually apply the laws to minors, a teenage couple, and set the precedent for peoples belief in the “ unwritten ” age - out laws, which to current civilian gossip says is around 16.; 
 
 P: Does that unwritten law carry any weight in the force, or more specifically, in your unit?; 
 
 B: ( Notably Tenses up becomes physically withdrawn ); 
 
 B: No, they do not.; 
 
 ** -- End Transcript ( Excerpt of complete Report ) -- ** 

