AUDIENCE FOR: Harrowhark

[guestservices]

Comments

[guestservices]

Why do you ask?

[outsidebones]

Because I am not very good at making conversation that is not tied to questions about our circumstances.

[guestservices]

If you're looking for a friendly chat, someone like Vulpecula would be a much better partner.

[outsidebones]

You must take my personality into consideration, too.

[guestservices]

What, you think Vulpecula will wear you out?

[outsidebones]

On the space station, the one Avatar who was universally agreed to be wonderful and kind is the one that hated me...

[guestservices]

People are like that sometimes. But I hate everyone, so what makes you think you'll have better luck with me?

[outsidebones]

I don't, necessarily. But perhaps we'll manage to have a conversation, at the least.

[guestservices]

My "conversations" consist of things like your friend complaining that I kicked him in the crotch even though he deserved it.

[outsidebones]

And in fact, he did deserve it.

[guestservices]

Glad we're in agreement there.

[outsidebones]

A word of advice - he is irritating on purpose, and the more you allow him to know it bothers you, the more enjoyment he will get in doing it.

[guestservices]

Maybe you should instill in him a sense of self-preservation.

[outsidebones]

It is not possible.

[guestservices]

Then no guarantees about his physical well-being if he annoys me.

[outsidebones]

Please don't kill him.
Short of that, I take no issue with that.

[guestservices]

Even I'm not unprofessional enough to kill guests. Probably.

[outsidebones]

Good. Then we're settled. But fair warning, one of the Avatars did try to give him a splitting headache as punishment, and it absolutely only made him worse.

[guestservices]

That just sounds like masochism at this point.

[outsidebones]

Perhaps. Really, though, if you don't want him to talk to you, the key is to be excessively boring.

[guestservices]

Rest assured I do my utmost to be as uninteresting as possible.

[outsidebones]

Do you have any particularly dull hobbies, by chance.

[guestservices]

My hobby is watching paint dry.

[outsidebones]

Yes, that will do nicely.

[guestservices]

Good to know it's efficient annoying stranger repellent.