un: phoenixevolution

[manufactured]

Sometimes the world burns and it's something to be remedied; it's something to be fixed, to be patched up and smoothed over, and you go back to forgetting that it was ever burning to begin with.

And sometimes the world burns, and that's just the state of things. If it's not your new normal, it becomes your generalized normal rather quickly. It's not the end of things, it's just places you no longer go and precautions you become accustomed to taking. Adapt. Overcome. Evolve.

Things are settling again, for now. We'll see if it stays that way or if the scales continue to tip. But while I don't take pleasure in all that's been happening lately, I can't say I haven't missed being part of a world setting itself on fire, either.

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[torsion]

No shit. You kept me around for almost four years.

Do you want to know how you die? :)

[manufactured]

Because that sounds like something I should absolutely believe without question - say something if you're going to, attempts at baiting aren't flattering.

[torsion]

I was told by multiple people from the future.

Chris kills you, just like I knew he would. You sink into a volcano and he shoots you head on with a launcher.

We all survive. Never doubted it for a minute, but it's nice to have confirmation that you don't succeed in your endeavors and took yourself to your own death. :)

[ Now she's just gloating... though naturally some of this is a lie. She's questioned it, as much as she's wanted to believe. She's been uncertain of her health and survival and still is at times, but she believes Leon and Piers. ]

[manufactured]

[...Surely she is aware that that sounds like purest bullshit, right, given that it makes no coherent sense with literally anything that's going on at the moment. It's not her fault that RE5's writing just happened to be like that, as a whole, but. The gloating is...also not doing her credibility any favors? So like...]

If you say so, Jill. Are you finished, or...?

[torsion]

I'm sure you'll have no problem finding me if you want to see me.

[ That's her way of saying "I'm out," to him. And she is, indeed, pretty easy to find even if he doesn't keep tabs on her. Not wallowing, but enjoying herself in the dark corner of a quiet jazz bar, drinking bourbon on the rocks after bourbon on the rocks. ]