Floor 5, Room 3

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ITHAQUA

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[impacter]

That's likely because he doesn't want to see you upset.

Talk to him anyway. His responsibility is just as important as ours. If he will not take you seriously, that doesn't stop the problems.

[Go annoy the shit out of him, Ahito, that's what Grandpa wants you to do.]

[dyingtohealyou]

Who said anything about being upset...

[It's just annoying!!]

If he doesn't take me seriously, why's it my job to fix that?

I've already got enough on my plate. You can tell him, Jing Yuan can tell him - there's plenty of other options. My time's better spent elsewhere.

[impacter]

It's not your job to fix it. I just think you might deserve to annoy him a little more for the trouble. [Blow off some steam, etc etc.]

[dyingtohealyou]

That would never work. It's like talking to air with that guy - everything just goes right through him.

[impacter]

Have you thought about why that might be? Outside of pure negligence, that is.

[dyingtohealyou]

Because he doesn't care.

[impacter]

And why is that?

[Said in the tone of someone who very obviously knows the answer, but is not going to give it openly.]

[dyingtohealyou]

How should I know?

[impacter]

How else do you find out things? You ask.

He isn't against speaking about it.

[dyingtohealyou]

That hasn't been my experience at all.

[impacter]

Then maybe you're not asking the right questions.

[dyingtohealyou]

Maybe I don't care enough to.

[impacter]

And you have reasons enough for that, don't you? He's not taking you seriously, so what right does that give you to treat him seriously in return? And something in the way he ignores your problem and tells you to stop talking to him as a solution makes you feel affronted in that way. That he'd rather avoid the issues instead of treating you with respect and honoring your time. Something like that.

If you want answers from him, or respect from him, maybe consider he's the type of person who doesn't realize how he's coming across. Maybe his mind is on other things, in a way that supersedes attention to detail.

You do not need to treat him with respect. But I do think he deserves to be held accountable. If he wants to be treated like a Sage, then he needs to realize how we want to be treated in return, and the only way he is going to get it through his skull is by unapologetically telling him. Being annoyed and avoiding it is just echoing the same thing he is doing to annoy you, and you are the only one at a loss for it.

[dyingtohealyou]

Are you sure he even wants to be the sage?

It's not my job to make sure he's doing his. It's his own problem to solve, and if he thinks avoidance is the solution, I'm fine with leaving him to it.

[impacter]

On the contrary. I'm sure he does not.

I'm also sure he has every intention of helping the people of this world, despite his feelings. And I have been holding him accountable, just as I've suggested to you, and have found it's helping me to understand him and our situation better.

If you don't wish to do the same, then that's your choice. But I don't make the suggestions without reason.

[dyingtohealyou]

Thanks. I didn't ask for any of it in the first place.

[impacter]

And now you have it anyway. You can toss it to the wind if you really want to.

[dyingtohealyou]

Already on it.