That's probably a good thing. [there's a slight pause, and their inflection changes just slightly.] While I admire your fortitude, Miss Clementine, I do think it would be best if certain questions go unanswered.
We're staff. We can only help so much as our job allows. ["I'd help you with whatever I could, you know that."]
...make sure nothing else happens to you and that will be enough. [do not double-die.] Though I've heard you've been changing things around the mansion.
[ she gets close enough to move into a loose hug, but kind of... drops her head against their shoulder like she's exhausted. and like that's what she was after more than an actual embrace. ]
There's a recording. Where the guy in charge says something about... There not being a way for us to fulfill the terms of our contracts.
[this isn't the first time she's done this, so they allow it. it doesn't stop them from reaching up to kind of touch the back of her head though. really briefly.]
...oh. [OH. OKAY.] Even if you actually killed someone? That must count for something.
[ if you can't fulfill your contract, does the other end have to uphold it? she's not good with things like this. and what little she knows is too vague to be sure what parts she can still trust. ]
But it sounds like there's no way back for the rest of us.
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okay. yeah. they can take her hand.
even if she's still all kinds of tense and not quite willing to look at them. ]
Fuck.
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...you can't tell anybody, okay? But I...really just wanted to see you for a bit.
[the voice is probably now a little more familiar, huh.]
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That's easy. I'm not a gossip.
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...I've been waiting for you to call me back.
[SHUT. UP. ACTUALLY.]
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[ okay she is like. a little bit self conscious about bullying them so much now? like a little. (a little.) ]
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[they are probably still holding her hand.]
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[ no secret insider information for her... this is just a new level of frustrating. but she manages to say that with less bite behind it.
and it's not like she's letting go of their hand. ]
Can I... Help you? At all?
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...make sure nothing else happens to you and that will be enough. [do not double-die.] Though I've heard you've been changing things around the mansion.
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Yeah. Virgo yells at us and we fix stuff.
Guess I'm pretty used to living in, uh... Fixer uppers, though.
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[they're not entirely sure, they are assuming.]
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I don't see what planting flowers has to do with this place.
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Is it that you don't know, or that you can't say?
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[ as always, that is the most important thing. ]
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Everything else is up for debate at the moment, I'm afraid. And there are still several weeks left in the terms of the contract.
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They're just going to sabotage it anyway, aren't they?
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What do you mean?
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There's a recording. Where the guy in charge says something about... There not being a way for us to fulfill the terms of our contracts.
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...oh. [OH. OKAY.] Even if you actually killed someone? That must count for something.
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[ if you can't fulfill your contract, does the other end have to uphold it? she's not good with things like this. and what little she knows is too vague to be sure what parts she can still trust. ]
But it sounds like there's no way back for the rest of us.
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...see if you find anything else on this side. I have to keep working on the living side of things for a little while longer.
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... Why? Why are you working here? Is it... Safer than if you were like the rest of us?
[ what's at stake for staff members? she had wondered about it, but admittedly cared a whole lot less, before. ]
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