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[untiltheend]

This is Sebastian Michaelis. I am unavailable at present, but please leave a message. Should a response be needed I will reply when time permits me. Please do keep your message brief.

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[untiltheend]

By all means. [But really, despite the light jab Sebastian truly doesn't mind - personal philosophies are perfectly fine material for conversations with complete strangers. They're entertaining, besides.]

As for yourself, sir? If I may ask. [...See previous bracket text.]

[heyboss]

You may, but you'll have to be more specific in the question.

[untiltheend]

Pardon me - how easily maintain you yourself your chosen persona?

[It's not meant as an implication that Sheehan is dishonest. It's an implied "everyone does it to an extent".]

[heyboss]

[Sheehan doesn't mind it, implication or not. He had admitted to having one. The question isn't too bold.]

It is something I need for my job. A professional air of aloofness, without the connotation that I don't care.

Get too close and you can't help the other person.

[untiltheend]

Because growing too close, you would struggle to maintain an objective viewpoint?

[There's a genuine curiosity in Sebastian's tone. He knows next to nothing about counselling.]

[heyboss]

Exactly.

It's difficult to get too emotionally invested in anyone you're helping.

There's a reason that surgeons don't work on their own family. You get clumsy. You get afraid. You make mistakes.

[untiltheend]

[Intuitively, this doesn't make sense to Sebastian. Surely if you are personally invested in a person, it should prompt you to do an even better job? But humans gotta human, he knows.]

Makes it not living on the Barge difficult? Seeing as at least half of the populace is prospective patients?

[heyboss]

There is only one person I am seeing here in a professional capacity and that person and I have very firm boundaries. Everyone else is simply - well, even a surgeon can offer a bandage and wrap a broken leg for a friend.

[untiltheend]

Everyone else, if not a client, is merely an acquaintance at best, then?

[Hee. Wardens having a bad time.]

[heyboss]

[Sheehan laughs.]

That depends on what happens. I have friends. And I offer a listening ear to them as well.