"The red bird. He didn't want me to. Neither did the other one he was with. So I didn't. But...they said that I hurt people helping. That I can't make them forget when it hurts because it huts them later." And he didn't know if it really did, but...if there was even a chance that it would, he couldn't risk it.

It's that "what if" that's the most damaging. Mostly for people. But it seemed for him too.