[ dani's quiet, uncertain. but the anger seems to deflate from him when koby says that, when he apologises in a way that seems real. diarmuid had said, see if he says what you need to hear. except that dani hadn't really known what he needed to hear.

so he's quiet, and then after a moment, he offers a brief little nod. when he speaks again, his tone has lost most of its venom.

He's the only one of them that was honest, [ he says, looking down. ] He never hid what he was like the others did. And there's that...awful Armand, who hides all his horror behind charm and actually does think of humans as cattle, and you...made him right. Everything he said about how vampires should hide, and be dishonest, because humans would turn on them otherwise. It made him right, and now Lexi thinks he was right, too. I have to...to show him, prove to him, that we're better than the vampires of our world think we are, that we deserve to live free and not on farms, that we can co-exist. And your crew proved the opposite. And worse, you used my words to do it.

[ that's the real root of it. it was dani's words, used against him. it wasn't just that the vampires couldn't trust the humans in this house, dani couldn't either. even the nice ones, who'd seemed sympathetic. ]

Maybe we're not better, maybe humanity isn't. When it comes down to it, maybe we can't think of the greater good, maybe we'll always only protect our own. That's what the game proved, isn't it, that's what everybody did.