007. Text // shoot here and the world gets smaller

[manufactured]

This month certainly has been interesting so far, hasn't it. Joanne - I know you're not going to reply, dear heart, but you might want to place a moratorium on calling things "exciting" for the next short while, seeing as apparently it just curses the entire situation.

Though perhaps I'm biased in some way; after all, my body doesn't exactly play nicely with fire anymore.

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not one for bolstering one's spirit; either you'll find your own fortitude in times like this or you won't, and bluntly put the direction you choose to take is of very little consequence to me. However, that isn't to say that it doesn't hold my interest; whether you've run screaming into the flames or avoided them, my question is one of progress. Not physical, as I have no doubt that we'll receive updates on whether what we're doing is truly enough or not – but rather internal.

Consider it a question of morale, I suppose. How we're holding up, how things are looking for the days to come. Whether we all hate ourselves a little less, if that's the sort of thing you have to report.

If nothing else, it seems an acceptable concern to have at the moment.

[...That is literally the most stilted "how is everyone doing, hope you're all having a happy crisis and not literally dying in a fire" that has ever been written, but you know what, it's going to have to work for now.]

Comments

[flametheif40]

Huh...and do bodies actually sink into the lava or do they float?

Since you got the memory for that and lived.

[manufactured]

You do realize you're talking to someone about the way they died - something that they experienced in their memories as though it were happening to them?

I wouldn't suggest discussing it this way with anyone else.

[flametheif40]

[Al looks at the message for a bit...confused...]

umm...what way?

Legitly asking, not trying to piss you off.

How casual I am about it? Or trying to get every detail of it?

if the second, when did I go to far?

[manufactured]

It's a combination of both, I believe...? I'm honestly not the best at this sort of thing myself. Think of it less as telegraphing that I'm annoyed or angry with you and more along the lines of realizing that most people tend to find it insensitive when I do it. Something of a cautionary thing, if you will.

Was waiting on a memory

[flametheif40]

Sweet mother of crap...

Apparently, I was thrown into a volcano, then repeatedly stomped on while floating on the lava before bursting out of the volcano flying.

I knew I was immune to heat and fire, but, geez, even lava would make me scared.