[Is it that easy for normal people, to just decide it's worth having fun and then do it? Maybe it is, he thinks after a moment, and nods. Maybe he can try that too.]

Yeah. Since we're already here, right?

[Too late to turn back...although he could take his chances and call a corridor if he really needed to.]

So...uh....everything going okay? Did you talk to the people at the job they gave you yet?

[This is his best effort at small talk and yikes, he's not great at it.]