"...oh, yikes."

"Seconded."

"Very much so. I can't decide if it's worse that we lost Chicago or that we got the new blood - I know it sounds callous, but they're not going to be one in four. Their odds can't be much better than they were outside."

"Depends who they can get looking out for them. On the whole, though, yeah, they're fucked."

"...I'm hoping I can look out for some of them - at least a bit. But. I have other responsibilities."

"Yes, I feel similarly."

"...that being said, there's a girl who's been buying their hair off them at surprisingly reasonable rates, and one of them attached herself to a New Yorker, and - I don't know. Maybe we've got an unusually helpful class."

"Wouldn't that be lovely."

"Here's hoping."

"Yeah. Here's hoping."