AUDIENCE FOR: Dimitri oh fuck i have to put in his last name

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this is just a placeholder until you give us a real one

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week 0, sunday

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[a bit after dimitri picks up the phone, the line picks up.]

Starlight Hotel, this is Aquarius. How can I direct your call?

[overruns]

[ i really had to think about whether crau1 had phones ]

If you've the time to spare, then I will speak to whoever is available.

[ all of them are presumably(?) equally(?) strangers to him. ]

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[dimitri your technology...]

Some of the others might be free, but you got me. It's Dimitri, right? How are things?

[overruns]

A second one of us has died today, so you will excuse me if I say things are going poorly.

[ the fucking yackety sax execution ]

[guestservices]

You would be surprised how people seem to be feeling about that. But poorly is probably a good word for it.

[overruns]

Everyone processes matters differently.

[ maybe some of them are relieved a killer is dead, or sad a friend is gone, or don't feel much of anything at all. ]

But I am not here to ask over the living. I want to ask what becomes of their hostages and contracts now. Flayn and Sieghart.

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Well...you're gonna hate this, but that's not up to me to disclose. That's between them and the owner of the hotel. They signed the contract.

[overruns]

[ they're right! he does hate this. there's an aggrieved huff on his side of the line. ]

And I suppose the owner is not disposed to negotiation?

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Likely not. [... ] Wanna tell me what you're thinking?

[overruns]

If their hostages are forfeit due to their deaths, then I would ask that they are extended onto my contract instead.

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Do you actually remember what your contract said? A bunch of you seem to have no idea.

[overruns]

I do not. [ because i asked for four audience threads at once i guess ] Only in vague terms, but I can assume that our survival is necessary to keep our hostages safe.

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In theory, sure. But even without your hostage being taken into account, do you not care about your own survival?

[overruns]

I do not intend to die again, if that is what you mean.

[ if his hostage survives though, it doesn't really matter if dimitri makes it out of here or not. ]

But I am asking after Flayn's hostage, not my life.

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I know what you're asking about, Dimitri. But you don't think that playing for other people's hostages wouldn't just put a different target on your back?

[overruns]

Endangering myself is not my concern. I will weigh risk based on what it is, and what I stand to gain.

I just wish to know if it is possible.