un: phoenixevolution

[manufactured]

Through curiosity both morbid and not - what were you in the middle of before bring brought here, and how urgent do you consider returning to it?

Just going by the way things have been around here lately, I won't precisely be surprised if answers trend towards "having a crisis", "dying horribly", or "watching someone else die horribly"; even so, it isn't as though I'm going to judge for such things either way.

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[manufactured]

About as well as I would expect, given the guests in question.

[shiliu]

Who were your guests?

[manufactured]

One was a former colleague of mine. Another was someone I'd never met before.

I could ask you similar questions, you know.

[shiliu]

It's natural to be curious about people expressing curiosity.

My "guests" were an invading army. I'm told we repelled the principal force, but some poor squatters still remain.

[manufactured]

Congratulations on the majority of it all being a success, I suppose.

I was overseeing a project that was of great importance to my world. My former colleague really isn't fond of me and is a bit invested in trying to stop me from doing anything, including the beneficial things. He's short-sighted like that.

[shiliu]

[ ........"congratulations." How could be possibly be congratulated for something that came at so high a cost? ]

Sounds like politics.

I prefer the front line, at least there you can be reasonably assured who the enemy is.

[manufactured]

[Sometimes you've just got to take the fact that you succeeded at all and aren't dead, honestly.]

There's something to be said for the simplicity of it, I'll grant that much.