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=== Assistant: if i were careful not to alarm her and wanted to understand her life as it actually is, i would likely ask questions li… ===
if i were careful not to alarm her and wanted to understand her life as it actually is, i would likely ask questions like these, in a calm, conversational way during her break.
# how long have you worked here, and how did you come to this work in the first place?
# what does a good day look like to you, compared with a bad one?
# what part of the work weighs on you the most, and what part feels easiest or most familiar?
# when people here are angry with you, how do you make sense of that for yourself?
# do you ever think about the people once they leave this place, or do you try not to?
# what helps you get through the day when it feels especially heavy?
# were you always like this in temperament, or do you feel the work has shaped you over time?
# what does smoking your pipe give you that nothing else does?
# when you imagine the future, do you imagine change, or more of the same?
# is there anything you believe about life now that you did not believe when you were younger?
# do you think the rules here are just, or simply necessary?
# when you lie down at night, what thoughts return most often?
# if someone replaced you tomorrow, what would you hope they understood before taking your place?
# what would you want someone from another time to understand about this work that they might get wrong?
# when all this is over, how would you want to be remembered, if at all?

these questions would let her speak about duty, endurance, fairness, and cost, without forcing judgement or modern assumptions onto her world.