The people in charge of the center decided that they would encourage us to fight - they wanted us to form a "rivalry", to see how we would perform under pressure and supposedly increase our productivity. I suspect it was an exercise to see which of us they were going to keep.

It didn't work; Birkin and I decided to collaborate rather than compete, and we finished what they set us to do well enough. But it was...stressful.

[...They very stupidly Power Of Friendship-ed their way through their superiors pushing them to fight, it was dumb but it worked.]