AUDIENCE FOR: Clementine

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Comments

[guestservices]

[clem your reading]

A decent number.

[stillnot]

Do we get to meet the Nightman at any point?

[guestservices]

That's not up to me.

[stillnot]

He'll probably show up at the very end of all of this, right?

[ they're clearly not going to answer that??? ]

[guestservices]

No clue.

[stillnot]

Do you actually not know or can you just not tell me?

[guestservices]

Yeesh. If and slash or when the boss shows up, it'll be as much of a surprise to any of us. It's not like we know their schedule.

[stillnot]

[ that doesn't sound right, but clementine doesn't know enough about jobs or bosses to dispute it.

she kind of skims the contract for a second... ]

... So would you do it? Kill someone to save a hostage, I mean.

[guestservices]

[they shrug.]

Probably. That's what people are like, after all—drive them into a corner and their ugliness comes out. I'm not going to pretend I'm some heroic type.

[stillnot]

The hostage would probably call it heroic.

[guestservices]

Probably. But it's still hypocrisy to think of it as such.

[stillnot]

Only if you're mad at other people for doing it.

[guestservices]

[they shrug.]

It's in human nature to put the people you love first, even if it means killing others. Anyone who acts like that's unfathomable is out of touch with reality.

Just don't call it justice.

[stillnot]

You're right. Justice would be killing whoever kidnapped our hostages to begin with, not each other.

[guestservices]

[dryly]

Well, I guess it's good to have hopes and dreams.

[stillnot]

I said it would be justice, not that it's what I'll do. I just want to go home and be left alone.

[guestservices]

Honestly? For the better.