I suggest slowing down and working on pacing, [@Letter Bee], and not over interacting with other players before you completed your interaction with me. You we're the one after all that wanted our two characters to interact and now you wanna jump the gun for a second interaction with others?

I can very easily leave the conversation when your Alex and go off to collab elsewhere, but that could end up meaning I will less likely interact with you in the future as I don't know whether we will have a decent story element to build on or it'll end abruptly for you to just to the next character that seems to be free for interaction.