"They're all like that, that's what they do," she tells him, mentally backing away a little. "I'd like to think he cares a little bit, but in the end, he finds gigs and I perform. That's just how it works..."

For whatever reason, she's suddenly reminded of how the conversation had ended before the auditions, but shakes it from her head immediately, wondering why on earth it's thought of at all. She's really not used to many people taking up for her much anymore. Not personally, at least.