AUDIENCE FOR: Harrowhark

[guestservices]

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[guestservices]

Call it curiosity. I haven't gotten to talk to all of them, myself... but I have gotten to talk to you, and we'll be seeing each other often enough, so I wondered what you thought of all of them.

[...]

The place you were from... I remember from the files, everyone who was there agreed to be there, right? So it was kind of like this, except you guys didn't forget about that agreement, so it wasn't weird like the whole contract thing here was.

[outsidebones]

...I actually did forget about it, technically, but I was an unusual case. Generally, you are correct.

Killing wasn't required in the agreement. It was, however, suggested that getting what we were promised might be easier if fewer people were there at the end to share in the reward.

[guestservices]

I see...

[they hum.]

What do you think? Is it better to be in a situation like that, or like this one?

[outsidebones]

That.

[very easily.]

I have been thinking recently that...there are many things in my life which I have been given no say over. So I value those times when I am given the choice to refuse, no matter how reckless or painful that choice may be.

[guestservices]

[they nod...]

I get that. Even if it's got consequences, it's your choice and no one else's.

[outsidebones]

Yes. [...] I have seldom been myself. I have always been my House. But at the station, I was something more than that, and I chose what Harrow wanted.

[guestservices]

...I hope you're able to choose what Harrow wants here, too.

[outsidebones]

That would be nice.

[but there's a small smile, like she thinks it might be unlikely.]

[guestservices]

It would be.

[it's not possible to see vulpecula's face with the veil, but their voice sounds like they're probably smiling softly.]