It's never been about how they use it in anything he's been taught, but Lance isn't from around this area as far as Detlef knows. Maybe where Lance is from, it's different? It would be nice to believe there's a place where it's all about how you use the Vice, and not if.

"I didn't... I didn't mean to tell you," he protests, shoulders sagging a little. "You came back and asked, and I'm not good at lying. I don't know how people get good at it. Do they lie a lot? But then they're going to be known as--" he cuts himself off and sets the cookies down in reach of Lance so he can rub a temple. "I'll hide it better, and I won't tell people."

He takes a breath.

"What I was taught is that everyone has it, but the moment they use it they're bad and lost and weak and Profane. But you're saying more have it than people think..." Does the Captain not have it? He can't just ask, though.