-- Sure, come in. -- Fortis let the guest in, closed the door, and prepared to listen.
— When you came into this room, there was no one here. Maybe you specifically chose an empty room, like I did, or maybe not; I don't know, and it doesn't matter. It wasn't like this at first.
Gideon gestured with his hand at the empty half of the room.
— In the first quarter, a student named Dion lived here. He was described as a boring stubborn person who urged others to study hard, although he himself didn't make it into the top ten on the entrance exam. And do you know what happened to him? He was shot by one of my neighbors on the floor when he tried to cut off his head. It's not entirely clear why he did it; most likely, he was under the influence of the hypnotism of the maniac Carvia, or maybe he just couldn't cope with the bugs in his head. Maybe one led to the other.
The young man paused for a moment, gathering his thoughts. It was time to get to the main point.
— That's what I'm getting at: if NAILS already had dangerous people who were capable of suddenly deciding to attack students, then with the influx of new students, there may have been even more unreliable elements. And I'm not saying this without reason – you would have heard what a mess these newcomers made on the fourth floor; they couldn't agree on an empty room, as if it were the only one in the building. And then another one showed up – a very suspicious type, a student from Aeolia named Sisnemis, who climbed right into my window with an offer to move in together. I talked to him for a bit, and I got the impression that it would be better to leave him in a suitable environment for himself. And I left there and now I'm looking for a new place. At first, I thought I'd go to an empty room, but then the situation would just repeat itself if more new students arrived. You're alone here now, which means you might end up in my position in the future. But if we share this room together, we'll avoid such troubles. So... do you mind having a roommate?