'Do they love me? Am I enough?'-- both questions that Jacinda has asked many times. And there were some dark times that zie was certain the answer to both was 'no'.

Jacinda's eyes are drawn to that scar on the creature's chest, and zie wonders... was this always a 'creature', or... someone else? But the question it asks silences the one on zir tongue.

"I think... that I need to do a little bit more than dream. My own world is behind some of the ones I know of... it was only just 1999 there, when I left." Jacinda considers long held worries and the suggestions of friends zie hasn't seen in a long time. "I could find somewhere further along, somewhere that's better about transitioning... he wanted to help me regain the right body anyway, so he'd be happy for me... if he ever came back."

It feels like a better answer than wallowing in regret, for one thing.