guestservices | AUDIENCE FOR: Rupert

...I think you're always going to have parts of your job you don't like but you still have to work with. That's all.

Yeah, but normally that should be, like, paperwork. Not murder.

[a pause.]

Rupert, are you trying to bait me into a specific answer by chance?

No. I just - don't understand why you don't seem to care about this more, I guess.

A person's reactions, or lack thereof, doesn't exactly show whether they do or don't care about things. And anyway, maybe it's not really something you're meant to understand or worry about when there's a lot of other stuff happening here.

I know it doesn't. That's why I said you don't seem to, not that you don't.

[...]

Do you not have a choice but to be here?

I'm not being held against my will or anything if that's what you mean.

Right, but... Technically, all of us came here by our own choice. That doesn't mean we weren't coerced, though.

If you feel like you were coerced then doesn't it make sense to focus more on your terms than on what my job is...?

I can multitask.

Okay, well...multitask on something else. It's okay.

I think I'm pretty satisfied with my choices of what to divide my attention between.

[there's just a very blank stare, probably. hard to say since there's a veil. rupert?]

Your face is covered, so you're going to have to tell me what look you're giving me right now.

Exasperation, Rupert. I am exasperated.

[they like. don't sound upset though.]

I don't think it's a bad thing to want to get to know you!

It is. [this is said almost automatically, but then they pause.] ...there's plenty of other people you should get to know instead of the staff that's only here to serve you.

I mean, it's not an either / or thing. It can be an and thing.

[...a hand comes up under their veil and scrubs their face as they grumble to themselves.]

You're stubborn.

Yeah, definitely.

[at least he's self aware (?)]

Why.

[muffled by their hand.]

...I'm not sure how to answer you on why a basic part of my personality is the way it is?

You can make an attempt.

Because a lot of things matter to me...?

[they finally drop their hand.]

...look, can we make a deal not to get too personal? I don't mind talking to you and I don't mind answering some of your questions about stuff here, but the rest isn't that important right now.

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