[Athena sees the way Angel holds her hands out, and she understands. She'd felt that too, the first time her unit had been deployed, when she was still young enough that the Atlas brainwashing and indoctrination hadn't completely took over. She'd felt it after that final raid; it was like Jess's death had pulled back all those battered and repressed emotions Atlas had tried to torture out of her. It had brought back guilt, and since then, Athena had been uneasy at the thought of destruction on such a scale. It's why she dropped her alliance with Jack as soon as the Vault business was done.]

Jack ordered you to aid him in attacking those towns didn't he? They were his orders, and his people pulling the triggers - that wasn't you. You had no choice, with him doing all that he did to you. If you tried to resist... who knows what he might have done.

[She doesn't think her own words apply to herself, of course. Unlike Angel, before she broke her conditioning, Athena had enjoyed the thrill. She was a monster, yes. Angel? Not so much.]

I can't speak for anyone else, but... you see how Krieg treats you. If the Crimson Raiders still thought you were to blame for what happened to Sanctuary, I doubt he'd treasure you so.

[She thinks the others might feel the same, as well. When they told her their story in return for Athena telling hers, they... glazed over the Angel Core mission. Like it was a subject that was tender for them not because of anger, but because it... seemed to have hurt. The other siren, Maya, especially seemed to have a grim cloud hanging over her at that point in the story.[