Surprise them

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What conspiracy is this, anyhow? Is Your Lackey taking advice from someone other than yourself?

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You are very understanding

[…] This is his mum […]

[…] she'd not be able to stay more than a few days [...] you can't very well invite your own mum to your home on condition she take up [Work]. […]

So […] he's got her a […] room right by the station […]

He's tremendously grateful that you don't seem angry.

Description summary:
Part of the description varies based on the city's Official Alignment.

Alignment	Work
Liberationist Radical Liberationist Emancipationist-Liberationist	law-decomposing
Liberationist-Prehistoricist	peligination
Prehistoricist Radical Prehistoricist	lab-sanitising
Prehistoricist-Emancipationist	mammoth-feeding
Emancipationist Radical Emancipationist	fungal stock-taking
Anti-Liberationist	lamp-lighting
Anti-Prehistoricist	vermin-eradicating
Anti-Emanipationist	manifesto-delivering
Mixed	consensus-building
Balanced	attitude-balancing
Complacently Unrevolutionary	coin-stamping
Unknown

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