TM 242: Bearer of Bad News

[shadeof_grey]

It's kind of strange to think of this as 'bad news' but the first thing that came to mind was that I've had to tell everybody I loved that I wasn't actually dead. It's good news, of course; at least I hope so. But it's bad news, too, in the sense that, "Everything you thought you knew about one of the most important things ever to happen to you

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[skids_sally]

...why is you always having been the Phoenix a bad thing?

[shadeof_grey]

Because it means it didn't go away.

And that part of it was always me.

[skids_sally]

Why does it need to go away?

[shadeof_grey]

It has its good sides and bad sides.

[bestdamnxman]

Are you?

[shadeof_grey]

Am I what?

[bestdamnxman]

Learning to live with it.

[shadeof_grey]

I don't have a lot of choice in the matter.

[gartersandstars]

Our joy in your presence, Phoenix or no Phoenix, always has and always will outweigh any possible distress.