I'm so glad I camped out! The non-linear vignette style is fantastic, just the title 'cycle 581' is enough to make you feel exhausted for Hux, and he's still at the trying-to-understand-it-all stage.

the fear was not there, and Kylo took it like a failure.
A++

Also the part about how Hux "avoided the most obvious route when it came to conversations" reminds me of what it's like playing video games with a branching dialogue system -- quicksaving, going through every weird option until you get the result you want, reloading if you mess up. Which I guess is the whole prompt.