[Prefect is shaking his head before the story's even finished.]
No. No, they won't hurt you.
[They totally might, but... all of that stuff about helping people to get past their conditioning struck a nerve with Prefect, and he isn't even prepared to consider the possibility of it being repaid with anything but gratitude.]
Comrade, that-- what you're doing for them, that's the best thing you can ever do! It's the most important thing that can ever happen to someone. Comrade-- You can't-- There's no possible way that you could do that for someone and they wouldn't be grateful to you for it.
[He... is going to temporarily think about this and you, and not about possibly dead O'Brien, so he's just going to set aside those other things and focus on Wat You Dun.]
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No. No, they won't hurt you.
[They totally might, but... all of that stuff about helping people to get past their conditioning struck a nerve with Prefect, and he isn't even prepared to consider the possibility of it being repaid with anything but gratitude.]
Comrade, that-- what you're doing for them, that's the best thing you can ever do! It's the most important thing that can ever happen to someone. Comrade-- You can't-- There's no possible way that you could do that for someone and they wouldn't be grateful to you for it.
[He... is going to temporarily think about this and you, and not about possibly dead O'Brien, so he's just going to set aside those other things and focus on Wat You Dun.]