sheep_game | Counting Stars

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Counting Stars

WHO: Sheeps
WHERE: All over
WHEN: Night Post Game 77 / Morning Day 78

[DID YOU GUYS HAVE A FUN GAME? ARE YOU FUCKED UP? WELL GET IT TOGETHER

or not, maybe you just need to sleep. have some sweet dreams. This can be a dream mingle or a reality mingle, I'm not the boss of yall]

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[ It's just Kevin, picking himself up off the ground all hollow-eyed and looking very much like he just saw all the awful things that Cepheus is starting to remember.

He winds up glancing up at the window and then locking eyes with Cepheus. ]

Cepheus?

[ it's so tempting to react like, nope wrong number! and dive back into bed forever.

but he waves instead, if a little unwillingly, and gestures that he'll come out in a second ]

[ sir you can't new phone this, we don't even have phones

but all right. he just. sits down, then, rubbing at his face. ]

[ he is going to splash cold water on his face before heading out. ughughugh.

and then go and sit near him. at least the green scents of the grass and nearby fruit trees are soothing after All That ]

Bad night?

[ yeah. actual air instead of airborne Tartarus acid. or ocean water, or -

he turns and looks up as Cepheus sits next to him. ]

They're all bad, if I dream. You?

About the same. But something tells me that you already know that.

[ but maybe he'll get lucky and kevin will have no idea what he's talking about! ]

[ since when has Cepheus ever been lucky.

Kevin just stares at him with that heavy expression somewhere between sympathy and exhaustion. ]

... Yeah. I think I was in your dream tonight. Lethe was right about random dream sharing.

[ he's too tired and upset to bother with any illusions tonight, so it's all merisian bioluminescence up in here ]

For future reference, I'd love it if you could stay out of head.

[ whoa. now that Kevin is actually focusing on it, that's ... cool? alarming? he definitely jolts as he realizes Cepheus is still glowing. ]

I'd love to stay out of your head too.

[ he hesitates, still staring, trying to figure out what to say. ]

It - was't bad at first? Kind of nice feeling what you feel about the ocean.

[ going to take one or two deep breaths before answering ]

Yeah. That's gotta be new for you.

Yeah. I didn't realize it was so ... lively.

[ like maybe that's obvious but. ]

Being in tune with all the fish and everything.

[ okay, maybe his mouth twitches a little. slight temptation to smile ]

They're more talkative in real life. You wouldn't believe how many corals want to take up their turf wars with me.

Corals have turf wars? ... what do they expect you to do about it?

Obliterate their enemies, mostly. I usually tell them to talk it out. Sometimes the turtles help mediate? They're pretty patient since...you know.

[ he can't hide a faint snort at that. ]

Slow and steady, huh.

[ his smile fades a bit as he looks over that bioluminescent glow again. ]

Does Meris always show up?

[ there goes that humor. looking away ]

Not always.

[ sorry, Cepheus. ]

Just most of the time?

Some of the time.

[ especially the last few nights, for mysterious reasons ]

[ GEE, WOW, AMAZING, ]

... Has it let up at all? She's gotta fade at some point, right?

[ just raises his eyebrows and

looks at kevin ]

You saw her. We were both there when Pan faded. She seem anything like that to you?

[ yeah. okay. he knew but he had to ask -

He shivers bodily at that. ]

No. If anything ... she seems stronger.

Mute told us to expect some dead, weird fish. And that's what they knew. But she's plenty alive, as far as I can tell. And maybe even stronger than the gods. I never heard of any of them messing with a half-blood's power like this.

Me neither. If it were even possible -

[ aside from the Hunters and Greco-Roman shenanigans, which do not count ]

- there'd be wars over it. You know the Big Three would have been trying to convert the children of other gods like crazy during the Prophecy.

[ tHOSE DON'T COUNT ]

Right? If they could do it, they would've. Someone's definitely tried it. Kronos would've broken the gods' power over their half-bloods without a second thought, and Luke would've let him. So it's that they can't.

[ fuck. Luke. Luke is the best argument against this even being possible, because if it WAS Luke would have ...

Kevin rubs at his face. ]

But she did. I could feel it in there. It felt like when I had her power for a couple of hours, except ... deeper.

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