[23] - Voice

[doctor_j_crane]

My new warden is a detective. The irony is not lost on me, Admiral. [Sigh.] It does make one wonder. Does anyone actually like their warden

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[emptyyourself]

If we were all friends here, no one would ever graduate.

[doctor_j_crane]

How simplistic. There's a difference between liking and being friends.

...Now he's just screwing with Crane.

[emptyyourself]

Is there? Are you able to like your enemies?

Crane likes it like that. XD

[doctor_j_crane]

Interesting. You assume that wardens and inmates need to either be friends or enemies? Can't they simply be liked from a distance or respected but disliked? I was attempting to broadly search out how the barge in general felt, but your black and white world view is much more interesting.

...Snape now respects Crane from a distance.

[emptyyourself]

The general consensus during my own time as an inmate was that the wardens were indeed the enemy. Can they be liked from a distance or respected but disliked? Absolutely. Is the general populace capable of this? I've never seen evidence of it.

Interestingly, disliking from a distance often leads to attempted murder here.

The safest way. Crane is also more approving of Snape. And testing the waters with Pookie.

[doctor_j_crane]

Well, one can always hope. If one happened to be hopelessly optimistic and misguided. I'm afraid the barge does seem to be operating at a somewhat lower standard than that. As you say, dislike seems linked to murder and little else.

So, on that note, who's interested in murdering their warden?

[emptyyourself]

Oh, good. We were all out of wide-eyed pessimists.

I think I'd be the last to know if someone was plotting my demise - or that of any of the other wardens. I'm an horribly untrustworthy snitch.

[doctor_j_crane]

I'm afraid we're not. There's quite the number.

How sad. Do you ever feel threatened, knowing that you're so out of touch with the inmate population?

[emptyyourself]

Not particularly. It's in no one's best interest to do me harm.

Not this week, anyway.

[doctor_j_crane]

No, not this week. Come to think of it, I don't seem to remember you singing a musical number.

[emptyyourself]

You missed it, then. I can't expect to be remembered amongst the overabundance of performances - particularly Rayne's endearing video.

[doctor_j_crane]

I confess, I got bored quickly of individuals waving their egos across the journal system. If I wanted to see that, I'd just have lunch with Nygma.

[emptyyourself]

Some of them couldn't help themselves, in their - and my - defense. We're often compelled to do unpleasant things here.

Nygma?

[doctor_j_crane]

Yet some of us have the presence of mind to lock their journals in their desk and spend the rest of the flood in isolation. [Yes, Crane. That makes up for all the other embarrasing floods you've been in.]

Edward Nygma. You may have noticed him. He wears an awful lot of green.

[emptyyourself]

I've tried that.

...E. Nygma? Clever.