Does anyone ever get past that, really? We do have to live here, after all.

[He shrugs slightly. It's not as though the concept of being permanently entrenched in a game of advantages and costs is altogether foreign to him, after all; quite the contrary, in some ways his time at the resort really has been almost like a vacation. At least here the incentives and penalties are reasonably straightforward, and on some level predictable in nature. In Midgar, the knives behind curtains were endless, and so the vigilance had to be, too.]

And how many people here have you found to be like that? Wanting absolutely nothing from you?