shaft | hotel: lup

Ah. Do you have experience dealing with that type of person?

... Kinda.

It's just the stuff he's said to me, mostly. [sigh.] More it's... we all have to bend for this shitshow, you know? Nobody wants to cooperate. But we have to. Or we're not going to get through this.

Yeah, it has to be a team effort. All that arguing is a waste of time.

And it'll build resentment with some of the others.

Yeah. I was saying it earlier to Cloud - if we let one person get away with it, then other people will be like, well, Jason doesn't have to, so why do I?

And then we just have a mess.

Exactly.

I wonder if he'll understand though.

I don't know. I'm going to go looking for him later. We'll see if it does anything but make him stomp his feet.

I wish you the best of luck.

[ genuinely ]

You're... quite the mother hen.

You go through a whole uh, game, round, whatever you want to call it, where there's a bunch of people under your care, and you get some fussy instincts, I guess.

[she makes a face.] Ugh. I used to be cool.

[ He smiles! ]

I think caring about people is cool.

Okay, Mr. After-school special. [she's amused.]

Thank you, I'm available for bookings anytime.

[ hehe ]

I do hope you're able to get through to him though. It's a stupid thing to die just because you're uncooperative, but he might get voted out if we can't find a killer one week.

Yeah. [a sigh, and she leans back.]

If people vote him out because he's an asshole, it'll just reinforce everything he thinks about himself. It's a shitty cycle.