Notes

She walked in front of him, and he watched her body move. Courser training was designed to create obedient and emotionless killers, which the Institute needed to deal with escaped Synths and other threats to their vision. For the most part, X6 felt that this had worked. Certain feelings, such as a general disgust for surface dwellers, were allowed to make it out through training, and he certainly harbored those. Perhaps that was why other emotions were now manifesting, in contradiction to his training.

Her body was agile, athletic and gracefully feminine. Her mind was something beautiful that he never expected to kick down the Institute's proverbial doors and strut in from the commonwealth. She was determined, smart and fair. She had compassion and logic in equal measure. Some things he had dismissed as being valuable traits, she made shine. His admiration for her had built up over the time he had been supporting her.