"Let me repeat this once more: everything is voluntary, there's no coercion!"
He looked at the professor and gave a slight nod, then stood up. "Let's end here for today."
"If there's anything you don't understand, or anything you need to talk to me about, you can tell the professor. He has my number."
Lance left very quickly. After he was gone, the others finally stood up.
Some people walked toward the director, and some, once the director was surrounded, quietly slipped away from the scene.
Some people were willing to be speculators, some preferred to keep watching. That was perfectly normal.
Like when everyone tells you the market has hit bottom: some believe it, some don't.
How things will actually develop later, nobody knows.
It was over two hours later when the director got back to the hotel. He handed two forms to Lance. "Not everyone is participating."
