Vivi's stomach drops when he realizes his words had cut too deep. He goes over to James and knees down to be at eye level with the man, feeling both distressed with a look that displays an overwhelmingly amount of guilt.

"I- I'm sorry!" He says, fingers jittering. He had done something that hurt another person's feelings and the weight of it comes crushing him harder than any stone could. "I..."

The Gamemakers wouldn't do that, would they? They don't strike Vivi as being particularly picky about who ends up here. He can't reach a conclusion without sounding hopeless. He just didn't mean to bring James down with him, especially when the man has been so nice to him.

"...I'm sorry," he repeats, ignoring that feeling of a pit that just opened in his stomach. "...um....I don't think they'd do something like that. We haven't looked around hard enough."