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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[ 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.

[ luke would have. which also means that meris may well supercede a titan's power, doesn't it.

breathes out slowly, but that doesn't stop him from shivering. ]

She did. My father's influence is gone. [ a beat, then ] And if there was any doubt...

[ holds up his arm briefly. kevin's seen his camp jupiter tattoo before...and the trident sure has been replaced ]

Even the Roman magic can tell.

[ It sure has. Kevin physically recoils when he sees what’s replaced the trident. That isn’t something that CAN be changed normally as far as he knows? He’d investigated getting one himself as the Ambassador of Pluto…

He stares at it for a long moment in horror. Then looks up at Cepheus again. He might be low key on the verge of panic himself. ]

If he’s gone - if the gods can’t change someone’s heritage like that back home -

[ Kevin hesitates, not wanting to say it out loud. ]

If you go home like that, Poseidon won’t be able to fix you.

[ you are mine now, wherever you go.

the lack of response from cepheus probably makes it clear that this revelation is only news to one person in this conversation. he drops his hand, breathes out. ]

What's done is done. I didn't go to Meris back there expecting some fix from my dad to bail me out in the end.

[ CEPHEUS??

That lack of response startles Kevin? And then. Well. Then it doesn’t. ]

How long have you known? Immediately afterwards or -

[ shrug ]

I guessed pretty early on. You don't get big asks like "don't hurt the people you came here to hurt" or "get out of that person's soul" without paying for it.

[ yeah. That tracks. Kevin knows the rules of engagement for this sort of thing.

He winds up looking down at his feet for a long moment. ]

Are you planning to go home?

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