Bolton's Office Hours

[theoverseers]

[Want to chat with Bolton privately? Here is where you do it! Bolton's office hours will be held in conference room B in the library for approximately four hours in the morning several days a week. During that time the blinds will be drawn and that room will be off-limits unless you're there to talk to Bolton, though the other three study rooms will still be available for use.


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Comments

[refusedtoleave]

[Natsuhi's knocking on your door again. This time there's no hesitation, though she has gone back to wearing her bed sheet cape again.]

[theoverseers]

Come in!

[refusedtoleave]

Thank you.

[She's just going to sit down this time.]

That announcement during the party, is it a real threat?

[theoverseers]

[Bolton's gaze flits to the tablet embedded in his own right arm.]

It didn't come from either one of us. We're not sure how they're going to spread the word in everyone's homes, but... They definitely have the power to tell everyone here.

[refusedtoleave]

Who are they then? Is that another thing you can't tell us?

[She's scowling, but at least she seems calm?]

[theoverseers]

The Benefactors.

[refusedtoleave]

And are we going to meet them at any point?

[theoverseers]

Doubtful. I've never met them and I work for them.

[refusedtoleave]

Why work for someone you've never met? Surely someone had to interview you or you had to speak to someone about working here.

[theoverseers]

Someone put a sign up at the job I was working at. "Want to explore space? Meet new people? Drive out into a corn field and lay down among the ears, and a ProbeCo executive will whisk you away in no time."

[He sips his coffee. His voice and expression are a perfect deadpan.]

[refusedtoleave]

[She's dealt with too many teenage maids for that to get more than a glare.]

Are you saying that you were kidnapped as well?

[theoverseers]

Does this seem like the kind of job that accepts resumes or calls references?

[He's not too keen on giving a direct answer.]

[refusedtoleave]

I don't know. But you seemed to enjoy messing with us when all this started!

[Okay, now she's getting annoyed.]

[theoverseers]

Look, the people who run this kind of thing like to keep themselves behind some kind of a metaphorical wall. They hire people to do the dirty work for them, and they just sit back and watch.

[refusedtoleave]

... You don't really know anything about them do you? Only what they've told you.

[theoverseers]

Hey, I did say I've never met them.

Which goes for Jamie too, by the way.

[refusedtoleave]

How did you end up here!? I find it hard to believe either of you just volunteered for this. Especially not Fell.

[theoverseers]

[Bristle]

Jamie would never volunteer for something like this.

[refusedtoleave]

And you would? Why is he here if he didn't volunteer then.

[theoverseers]

I don't know how they got him here.

[refusedtoleave]

Really? I thought you two were closer than that... Did you really meet here?

[theoverseers]

Yes, we did. I didn't know Jamie before we met on this space station.

[refusedtoleave]

How long have you been been here then? To know each other so well.

[theoverseers]

Since a while before you guys got here.

[refusedtoleave]

That doesn't answer the question... How long have you been here? Weeks? Months?