*eyes you very closely, his expression unchanged but for a touch of mild surprise, as though he's trying to figure out your angle (and he is, kind of, but then you're Esther and he's never faulted you for blowing into the Fountain with your own brand of cheer, and he's not about to start now just because his House appears to have morphed into a completely inefficient black hole of laziness oh my eru who runs this place anyway)*
*slightly bewildered* Shoot. I'm sure it's not at all anywhere near as stupid as the half-dozen incompetent idiots I've had to deal with already today.