Oh... quite fine, really... but then, it's. Impossible not to be, comparatively speaking, placing today side by side with. Well. With... nothing.
[ A beat. ]
I'm not being ungrateful. Quite the contrary, matter of—fact. Matter of fact, before your parent entity went and swooped in, why, that was all there was, was... nothing.
Now, you understand I'm not without my questions, irrespective of gratitude. That's reasonable.
[ All the while his tone hasn't shifted from this slow, meandering near-monologue, but R.O.S.I.E.'s gotten awfully good at the subtleties of interaction in her time, hasn't he? She can discern, maybe, when one thing covers another, whether that's people withholding their true feelings about a matter, or saying one thing when they mean the opposite, or... ]
Seems to me not wondering is the... [ banal way of putting it but no time to reassess is there ] ssstrange thing. Not wondering. How they managed to come calling just at the right moment. Just what they can do. Just what can they do?
[ Well, what's happening now. Quiet in the background but not silent, almost too blatant to be construed as a genuine play at subterfuge...
no subject
[ A beat. ]
I'm not being ungrateful. Quite the contrary, matter of—fact. Matter of fact, before your parent entity went and swooped in, why, that was all there was, was... nothing.
Now, you understand I'm not without my questions, irrespective of gratitude. That's reasonable.
[ All the while his tone hasn't shifted from this slow, meandering near-monologue, but R.O.S.I.E.'s gotten awfully good at the subtleties of interaction in her time, hasn't he? She can discern, maybe, when one thing covers another, whether that's people withholding their true feelings about a matter, or saying one thing when they mean the opposite, or... ]
Seems to me not wondering is the... [ banal way of putting it but no time to reassess is there ] ssstrange thing. Not wondering. How they managed to come calling just at the right moment. Just what they can do. Just what can they do?
[ Well, what's happening now. Quiet in the background but not silent, almost too blatant to be construed as a genuine play at subterfuge...
import admin
if not admin.isUserAdmin():
admin.runAsAdmin()
...but perhaps no less brazen for it. ]