The agent's tone is infuriating, and Jamie has to restrain himself from visibly bridling. Maybe this woman's just as screwed up as the rest of them and doesn't have any idea what really happens to the people who get fired; she might not know that she's casually dismissing the unpleasant fates of all the performers who've gone missing, people who were treasured and respected by their bandmates and friends, people like Nariko and Molly and Koumei and Yosuke -

"Of course we do," he replies, countering her saccharine tone with his own slightly patronizing one; he can be fake-polite with the best of them. "But Koumei and I were...collaborating on a project together and he said he would entrust our work to Garnet for safekeeping in the event of his absence. It'll just take us a second, I promise."

And he - well, tries to walk off with Garnet, but she's an impressively tall and sturdy woman, so it's going to require more than a little cooperation on her part. She seems so...out of it, though. Garnet looks like Jamie feels when he's trying to recollect his childhood or think about his parents - like there's a shroud of brain-fog she can't quite penetrate.

It's more than a little concerning.