AUDIENCE FOR: Claude von Riegan

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Comments

[shaft]

How does Aurora Barealis sound?

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If that's where you want to meet... sure!

[vulpecula opens up a shadow portal within aurora barealis and steps out to wait!]

[shaft]

[ Claude does not expect to have been beaten there, and just blinks in surprise. ]

That was fast.

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I've got my methods!

[they giggle.]

So - you like drinking, then?

[shaft]

[ a giggle... ]

I like drinking water. And you? Enjoy cutting loose?

[guestservices]

Everyone needs to take a break every once in a while, don't they? I do have to be careful not to let loose too much, though - I'm still "on duty".

[they do airquotes.]

[shaft]

When are you not on duty?

[ procures them a water for himself and... an alcohol for vulpecula ]

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[they accept the alcohol and drink from it]

While you guys are here? Never!

[shaft]

You don't sleep?

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...well, okay. We sleep. [...] At least I do. Who knows about some of my coworkers? I don't keep track of what they do in their own rooms. I probably don't want to know!

[shaft]

You're not close?

[ welcome... to 20 questions with claude ]

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We have a wide variety of personalities and I think that makes us pretty likely to bicker sometimes!

[shaft]

You can bicker and still be close.

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Don't I know it! Just look at me and Lepus.

[they shrug.]

And I try to get along with a lot of people. I do! But some of them are harder to deal with than others.

[shaft]

[ He nods, slowly. ]

Work is work, it's not necessarily about making friends, I guess.

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Right. We're not really here to be friends with each other, or to be friends with any of you. We're here to do a job.

[shaft]

So you haven't made any friends?

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I've met people I get along with!

[shaft]

[ he is just saying they seem like someone who would want friends, but what does he know ]

That's a start. Do you know why Virgo is so angry all the time?

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[they heave an extremely heavy sigh.]

I think that's just how Virgo is. I try not to think too much about it.

[shaft]

They seem... young?

[ baby? ]

[guestservices]

Ah.

...

They're not.

[shaft]

Really? [ ... ] Sometimes when you get older, you care less about how you come across.

[guestservices]

I guess so. Maybe that's why.

[shaft]

[ still assigning virgo baby in his head ]

Anyway, I've been hearing about our contracts. Could you share a copy of mine with me?