BASTIEN
"Ah, but my friend, you are attractive. A man's weight does not truthfully matter: it is all in the face and the charm, and you positively leak charm." A lot of Bastien's job had once been identifying charisma for his performers and acts: he would have taken Nate up in an instant.When Nate revealed it had been his father that had caused many of his issues back home, Bastien gave a wise nod. "Aah. Is that not the way, so often? My own father yearned for me to be a rose tender, like he had been: 'Bastien', he would say, 'our family earned our name working hard on the rose gardens of Paris - you would throw that away'?" The impression of his father was a gruff, accented voice, one that was almost comic but Bastien looked too genuinely morose for the joke to land. "...What was it your father had in mind?"
We're aware they're trying to take away our dreams
