Hm. I wouldn't necessarily say that it's common. But if I had a penny for every time I woke up one day in a country on the brink of catastrophe and war... I'd have two pennies.

[And it would still be strange that it happened twice. Though not unexpected -- her world was already in a state of constant turmoil. Wars and conflict were as commonplace as crusty bread.

[Doesn't make the prospect of this world any more inviting.]

Assignments... Were you sent to places like that often by someone?

[Because that's something Jade could relate to an extent.

[Perhaps so much so that she's gotten a little too relaxed during this conversation. She doesn't seem to pay much notice that the hand Alice had started to move is in her own now, with Jade herself just casually unawares.

[What.]