
We move on from the security station.
Mom: I miss Jack.
Me: Well, maybe you shouldn’t have gotten her killed then.
Mom: Hey!
Me: You know I couldn’t even find a screenshot of her dying there? No one else on the internet thought putting her in charge of that team was a good idea. Not a single one.
Mom: She needed it! She needed someone in her life to trust her and give her an important responsibility, even if she wasn’t good enough.
Me: Then you should’ve put her in charge of the bubble! You could’ve made her feel good and then she would’ve lived!
Mom: Look, she needed to die.
Me: Did she?
Mom: Yes.
Me: …Did she really, though?
Mom: She was too tormented. She wasn’t ever gonna be happy.
Me: I’m just saying, she’s alive in my game, and she’s a drill instructor helping other kids like her.
Mom: Nah she could never do anything like that. She was too far-gone. Best I could do was give her a moment of triumph before mercy-killing her.
Me: …