And if those people don't need it, but someone else does, will you leave them hanging? Protect who needs protecting. [It's undoubtedly the sense of "I'm an authority, if not the leader" that wafts off of Dixon that keeps Keith going here. He had gotten into fights with the other students at the Garrison, and one time one of his instructors. He feels like Dixon isn't so far removed from Iverson, trying to tell him how to behave and feel in the days following Shiro's death.

(Supposed death. Until he finally died. But Keith lives in denial of all of the above.)

Keith hyperfocuses because a pointless argument is better than looking behind him.]

We both protect people. It's just clear that I'm smarter about it.