018 - Red Velvet

[deadly_ned]

[Locked from Alpha]

I'm messing up with my inmate and I don't know how to fix it.


[Locked to Alpha]

You, um.


Are you...busy?

Comments

[private]

[routemistress]

[This is a very sceptical look.]

Drip 'arder. Alpha's prone to tantrums, I've noticed. I think 'e'll thank you in the long run for not letting it distance you from 'im.

[private]

[deadly_ned]

Can you graduate an inmate who hates you?

Re: [private]

[routemistress]

I 'aven't yet, I know that much. It's not personal, though, Ned, 'e's just angry at the 'ole world and you're the nearest bit of it 'e can vent on. 'E'll get over it.

[private]

[deadly_ned]

I'm scared I'm doing more harm to him than good. There has to be a better warden for him. Someone who knows what they're doing and won't upset him every conversation.

[private]

[routemistress]

Do you think 'e's actually upset, or do you think 'e's playing up to get you to back off?

[private]

[deadly_ned]

It's hard to tell.

I think he's genuinely upset but plays it up because he knows it makes me feel terrible.

[private]

[routemistress]

That sounds like our Alpha. 'Ave you 'ad any luck pinpointing what upsets 'im, exactly? Or do you back off?

[private]

[deadly_ned]

He hates being compared to anyone. He needs to...be his own person. He's so wrapped up in individualism that it makes him not a...team player.

It's a survival mechanism.

And the, um. The part about wardens acting like handlers. That's not a part I can easily separate.

[private]

[routemistress]

I've got to sympathise there. I'm not the world's best team player meself.

Remind me to come in the pub and talk to 'im. I'm quite fond of 'im, in a ...sort of perverse and annoying way.

[private]

[deadly_ned]

He'll know you were sent over.