It'll be much harder to cast doubt on the journal if he's saying it directly, at least.
[Some Zenith will find a way, he supposes, but it'd say more about the integrity of their own questioning if they keep pursuing that line of thought without evidence.]
[Claude's quiet for a moment, the communion becoming a little muted while he mulls that information over, until:]
I suppose we don't have anything to lose by letting him take it off, then. If anyone does object, wouldn't it just be suspicious? It'd indicate both that they know something, and that they have something to hide.
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[Some Zenith will find a way, he supposes, but it'd say more about the integrity of their own questioning if they keep pursuing that line of thought without evidence.]
What else did he tell you?
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the other things he had to say, however… ]
His eye. He was forced to replace it when he Harmonized higher within Zenith. He said most people eventually do it, as a show of loyalty…
[ upsetting and unsettling, but still not the point he came to make. ]
He can force people to tell the truth if they look into it. He wants us to make sure his eye is uncovered when we bring him back.
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You think Yima and her gang will push to make sure he keeps his eye covered? Or maybe certain people will just avoid talking to him altogether.
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[ that’s why he came to claude, sort of. he doesn’t know what to do with this information, except that he needs to make sure manon can see. ]
I don’t know… if Yima will tell anyone.
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I suppose we don't have anything to lose by letting him take it off, then. If anyone does object, wouldn't it just be suspicious? It'd indicate both that they know something, and that they have something to hide.