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You've reached Timothy Stoker, leave a message at the tone and I'll get back to you.

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[statementfuckingends]

[There's a significant pause as Tim fights down the urge to be petty about the whole thing. Sure, now you want his wardening advice when you have literally nothing better to do.]

I will say straight up that it's not "stop being a bitch", but that's as a friend. God knows how many wardens are mean little fucks, that's clearly not a mandatory requirement.

As a warden... honestly, I think part of me telling you what to do would actually be part of the problem.

[mrballisticsdummy]

More wise words!

What good are you?

[statementfuckingends]

You literally asked for my opinion, you piece of shit.

[But the barb's hollow, he's just exasperated.]

You know what your problem is? You'll do literally anything your boss tells you to. No hesitation, no thought. Head bloody empty.

[mrballisticsdummy]

You're not my boss.

[Except for the part where he kind of is.]

I'm not the goddamn scarecrow here. I did what I did because I knew the benefits outweighed the cost.

[statementfuckingends]

There's no saying it without offending you so I'm not gonna bother trying not to. Much as we both ignore it because it's stupid and arbitrary, I really am.

[He's accepted the silent treatment as inevitable.]

And justifying why it was perfectly alright to do it is completely different from questioning why it's even an order at all.

[mrballisticsdummy]

[He's not getting the silent treatment for that. Jacobi's accepted it. And if he can love his old boss, then he can be best friends with his new boss.]

First three rules of the SI-5 handbook.

Don't ask any unnecessary questions.

Don't ask any frivolous questions.

Don't ask any questions.

[statementfuckingends]

Does being dead not count as getting fired? You're not SI-5 here, Jacobi, you're allowed and rather more to the point encouraged to question the shit we put up with here.

[mrballisticsdummy]

To what point? What's the reason for it? Why would I question it? It's just going to happen. All I can do is react to it.

That's all I ever do. Predict and react. Anticipate and mitigate. Put this here, throw that there.

[statementfuckingends]

How does you doing that by choice make you any different than being Cutter's little Stepford pet?

[mrballisticsdummy]

Fuck you.

I stopped following Cutter long before I came here. I stopped following Cutter as soon as his actions put a bullet in Maxwell.

[statementfuckingends]

[Okay this was gonna be mean.]

And maybe if you lot hadn't been his no-questions lapdogs she might not be dead.

[mrballisticsdummy]

[...click.]