"Objectivity - " And just like that, that brief warm fuzzy feeling dissolves. In its place creeps a sense of profound unease.

Objectivity.

It's what the Others valued. Emotions were obstacles, to be freely shed and ignored. Objective insight was crucial. Detachment. He'd refused to become impartial and impassive and indifferent, clung to that incredibly human part. It was why they cast him out.

Oh, god.

Did Daniel just restore that? Is that what he did? He can't tamp down the swelling sense of wrongness, alarmed and uncertain.

"No, you - emotions - those are important," he insists, fear now dampening his former triumph in earnest. "You can't just ignore them when it's convenient."