[The grimace he offers in response to her explanation --very thorough, holy cow-- is nothing short of sympathetic. Weird games, weird food, the pervasive encouragement...he's observed that from the periphery, but he can't help being glad he missed that.
(There's some irony in writing this after the mingle and event, but that's backtags for you!)]
Weird that the house is so serious about this stuff, [the observation is casual; he peers over the side of the raft as he says it, looking down at the river. It really does look real, huh?] It's like...they've stuck us all in a cage and they're trying to convince us that we want it.
[Maybe some of them do. She's right, after all; some of them are definitely playing the game. Yu still isn't sure where he lands on the idea; it doesn't really seem feasible or probable, but some other people seem more optimistic that it's true.]
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(There's some irony in writing this after the mingle and event, but that's backtags for you!)]
Weird that the house is so serious about this stuff, [the observation is casual; he peers over the side of the raft as he says it, looking down at the river. It really does look real, huh?] It's like...they've stuck us all in a cage and they're trying to convince us that we want it.
[Maybe some of them do. She's right, after all; some of them are definitely playing the game. Yu still isn't sure where he lands on the idea; it doesn't really seem feasible or probable, but some other people seem more optimistic that it's true.]
What sort of theories?