Moonlight Sonata in C-Sharp Minor (смешанная)

Smoke breaks are neutral ground, so she makes a grabbing gesture for his lighter and he gives it. A big fat zippo with a gaudy engraving of an angel. Easy enough to pocket. Just need to hide it in the palm of her glove. Chris is oblivious enough. He’d probably spend hours going full bloodhound for something so small and obviously sentimental.
His cleared throat gets her attention and she passes the lighter back.
“So, you’re a Seabee,” he starts.
“Used to be, yeah.”
“Why’d you quit?” he asks.
(Something called a glass ceiling? I’d proven to my dad that I wasn’t going to be his legacy? My mom died and I realized life was too short to spend being petty?)
She shrugs, “Got bored, I guess. It wasn’t what I wanted.”
“And what do you want?”
(That’s the question, isn’t it? The climbing highs and the booming lows, where in the movement of keys does she fit? Where does she want to fit? Is she a music box or a tin soldier?)
She shrugs again, “To be Sarah Connor, maybe?”
Jill Valentine character study spanning from RE0-RE8. Serves as a prequel for Director Chiba and the Soft Apocalypse.