I was somewhere else. It was mostly a nightmare, one I spent entirely too long in. [she sounds firm. there were many people she missed from it, but the rest could go to the Void.

she'd rather take physical danger tinged with emotional danger than have to constantly worry about sex. whether or not she was appealing, whether or not she'd find partners, if she was even welcome. it was hard being the youngest person there and she'd found little sympathy for the fact]

That's--that's the best way I can think of to describe them. Yes. Is that...common? [she doesn't know. she's gaining on her third month, but it still means three months away from her estranged husband and sick child.

and Tinya's eyes grow huge. she's not used to being the one worried over, she's always been the one to do the worrying, carrying everyone else's emotional burden while repressing her own. both in the other world and back home.

it's on the tip of her tongue to give another denial, but. her own mother had been cold, forbidding, and prone to using her beautiful, friendly daughter as a spy, whether Tinya wanted to do it or not] .....I. Um. I'm not. Entirely. It's just. The screaming.

[she takes deep breath, puts the omni into private mode and takes the plunge] I--I died once. Burned to death.