[ The confidence with which Zack answers him does make it sound like a more sensible answer than it otherwise might. Danse has always been a rather impressionable man, when he's vulnerable. And some element of the waking world might be filtering back in, too, because the motive behind the real defense hadn't been so different. He'd called Nora a friend too, even if some of that had been based on misconceptions about her actual level of devotion to Brotherhood ideals.
This has worked out for the best for him, whether dreaming or awake, but it makes him tense up now as if being jerked by an invisible leash, a that's not right, an it can't be that simple. It's too broad and permissive, too sweeping a condemnation of what he still can't help but halfway believe. ]
What about the synths who willingly impersonate kidnap victims, to foment chaos? What about the ones who decimate villages on Institute orders? They don't deserve that kind of censure?
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[ The confidence with which Zack answers him does make it sound like a more sensible answer than it otherwise might. Danse has always been a rather impressionable man, when he's vulnerable. And some element of the waking world might be filtering back in, too, because the motive behind the real defense hadn't been so different. He'd called Nora a friend too, even if some of that had been based on misconceptions about her actual level of devotion to Brotherhood ideals.
This has worked out for the best for him, whether dreaming or awake, but it makes him tense up now as if being jerked by an invisible leash, a that's not right, an it can't be that simple. It's too broad and permissive, too sweeping a condemnation of what he still can't help but halfway believe. ]
What about the synths who willingly impersonate kidnap victims, to foment chaos? What about the ones who decimate villages on Institute orders? They don't deserve that kind of censure?