[ "If history's proven anything," he remembers telling a skeptical Nora once, "it's that an overwhelming show of force has a chance of halting a conflict before it begins." The principle doesn't apply here in the same way, for a lot of reasons--paucity of real evidence, lack of a massive army behind him, the fact that the rest of the convoy would surely take a dim view of him threatening the only medic, the fact that Arcade seems to be the only medic--but he can do it in microcosm. Stealth isn't his forte, but he can tell himself that if those two know he's watching them, they'll be less likely to try and tamper with the water supply or some such, as he's known the Enclave to do.
He feels stupid about it, frankly, and useless, but what else is new these days? His jaw sets with a deep lack of amusement at the acknowledgment of exactly what he's been doing. ]
That's less about you and more about the company you keep.
[ Because he doesn't know what Len is getting out of it, and it eats at him a little. The most charitable explanation, from his perspective, is that Len simply doesn't recognize the symbol, but that's not something Danse feels comfortable assuming. It could be as simple as money. It usually is. Money, and the promise of being an exception to the ideology. The simple fact of the matter is that Danse has been given no reason to trust a word either of them says, but at least he doesn't have concrete proof that Len has ever looked him in the eye and lied to him. His posture is tense, unforgiving, but not openly hostile. ]
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He feels stupid about it, frankly, and useless, but what else is new these days? His jaw sets with a deep lack of amusement at the acknowledgment of exactly what he's been doing. ]
That's less about you and more about the company you keep.
[ Because he doesn't know what Len is getting out of it, and it eats at him a little. The most charitable explanation, from his perspective, is that Len simply doesn't recognize the symbol, but that's not something Danse feels comfortable assuming. It could be as simple as money. It usually is. Money, and the promise of being an exception to the ideology. The simple fact of the matter is that Danse has been given no reason to trust a word either of them says, but at least he doesn't have concrete proof that Len has ever looked him in the eye and lied to him. His posture is tense, unforgiving, but not openly hostile. ]