[ Bastien’s eyes acquire a gleam—the gleam of a man who’s been offered a fortune. ]
I don’t want you to do it for me, [ he says, which is not at all the same as not wanting By to do it, ] and then regret it.
[ However. If they’re really talking about it. ]
But we could be just as useful. More useful. We could do a little less work, yeah, but the work we did could be what we’re better at. The connections you’ve made and the plans that you have with Flint, they would not go away. But we could go meet people where they are. No desks. You can still work on what you’ve wanted to accomplish.
And people will not think you were fired, [ he circles back to, ] because you are not being fired. We aren’t a big enough organization for people to get things that wrong. Some people might be relieved or might see it as an opportunity to have one of their own in the seat, but so what? Even if it someone we disagree with—they have disagreed with us this whole time, and the work still got done.
It’s been four years. Almost the entire time Riftwatch has existed. We needed someone to do it, and you did it, and it is alright to let someone else worry about it for a while.
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I don’t want you to do it for me, [ he says, which is not at all the same as not wanting By to do it, ] and then regret it.
[ However. If they’re really talking about it. ]
But we could be just as useful. More useful. We could do a little less work, yeah, but the work we did could be what we’re better at. The connections you’ve made and the plans that you have with Flint, they would not go away. But we could go meet people where they are. No desks. You can still work on what you’ve wanted to accomplish.
And people will not think you were fired, [ he circles back to, ] because you are not being fired. We aren’t a big enough organization for people to get things that wrong. Some people might be relieved or might see it as an opportunity to have one of their own in the seat, but so what? Even if it someone we disagree with—they have disagreed with us this whole time, and the work still got done.
It’s been four years. Almost the entire time Riftwatch has existed. We needed someone to do it, and you did it, and it is alright to let someone else worry about it for a while.
[ So much for not trying to talk him into it. ]