On the plane, Araari brings up being incompetently threatened. “Two men stopped me yesterday. From Captain Walker. They wanted me to tell you that continuing on this path is dangerous. —They meant because of them, because they will hurt you if you continue, but I suspect they are not the most dangerous thing we will encounter if we continue.”
"A lot of people don't manage it. Which is too bad. This is the one factory that is always hiring."
"It seems like it's probably always hiring because it can't retain very many people?"
"And-- they can always find more things for people to do. When the car factory closed they added four new sections."
"Um - I know this is a stupid question, but... do you know what we make?"
"No," she says. "The bosses call you a moron who doesn't even know what we make if you ask."
WHY WOULD YOU RUN A FACTORY THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANYTHING.
How aggressively do they shoo people out of this factory at night. How possible might it be to hang out in an out-of-the-way corner somewhere until there aren't any people around and she can try her hand at breaking into the offices.
(They might have security but if she gets caught before the breaking in part she can just pretend to be very stupid, which nobody here seems to have a hard time believing anyway.)
She can hang out until there don't seem to be any people around, then, or alternatively until it's clear that the only people around are security.
Yeah okay she's gonna try to break into the offices. Are they even locked.
In that case it's barely breaking in anyway. She's not optimistic about finding anything but she might as well be thorough. Is there any evidence of what this place makes. Is there any evidence of what this place's finances look like. Is there any paperwork of any kind.
Yes! There are accounting records. She can take a look at them if she wants.
Yep!! Well first she'll glance at them to see if she can notice anything herself, but she's not optimistic about that and will definitely end up taking them either way.
Well. It's not past six. Not that this matters since she doesn't actually have any means of going to dinner.
She cannot immediately think of a way to take advantage of this. Whatever. She's tired. She's just gonna hang out at the hotel and take a bath.
If this is the sort of hotel that has a bath, and not a stupid terrible hotel that doesn't.
Good for this hotel. She'll just hang out until she's less tired, then. Maybe read a book, while she's alone and this can't cause other people to expect her to be the sort of person who reads books.
A nice book. Not one of the books the Indian girl said made people scream.