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

[tasteslikesurvival]

Alright...thanks.

[She nods. Maybe... Maybe these guys weren't so bad? Maybe. She takes the book.]

I'll give it a shot. I'll leave it in this room once I'm done.

[theoverseers]

[He slips on a blue latex glove before he takes the needle, tucking it into a plastic baggie and setting that on the tray for now, just so it's out of the way.]

Sure. I'll be interested to hear what you think.

[He definitely doesn't sound smug and cruel like normal.]

Actually- one more thing. I just wanted you to know that it's okay to get angry. At me, at your friends, whoever. This situation sucks for you guys, and anyone who's not angry is either dangerous or lying. I used to have a lot of anger when I was younger, and I know that nothing made me madder than when someone tried to tell me how I was "supposed" to respond to a situation.

[Grownups need to stay in their lane, seriously.]

I wasn't listening, but it looked like you and Ricky worked it out between the two of you after the trial, so... good work.

[tasteslikesurvival]

[She nods.]

'Course I'll tell ya.

[She stops and listens. That's...actually very decent advice and even if it's an Overseer telling her?]

Thanks. I know it's okay to get mad in situations like this. I'm usually pretty good at not lashing out at people but the trial just rubbed me the wrong way. Besides, like you said Ricky and I talked it out and it's good between us again.

[She gives a dry laugh.]

Didn't stop the old woman from talking my ear off, though.

[theoverseers]

[He chuckles and reaches for his coffee.]

Trials do that.

I mean, she's right and she's wrong. You'll never make it trying to stick together if you turn on each other all the time. But you'll also never make it trying to stick together if you just shout each other down and bottle up everything.

[tasteslikesurvival]

I know... It's just hard to hear sometimes. She's got guts, though. [Natsuhi is sure opinionated, that's for sure.]

[theoverseers]

Hm.

You do too. Don't forget that.

[tasteslikesurvival]

So I'm told.