Counting Stars

[wooliefrand]

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]

Comments

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[spinebuddyandme]

A hellhound? Shouldn't that be Kevin's thing?

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[audacity]

[ a snort ]

Excuse you, he doesn't have the market cornered on everything Underworld-y. Mrs. O'Leary is my dog. I did kind of inherit her, but it was from a child of Athena.

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[spinebuddyandme]

Fair; it's just not what I expected.

My mom would've definitely killed me for wrecking the house though, even by accident. Yours sounds incredible.

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[audacity]

Told you. She's the nicest person on the planet.

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[spinebuddyandme]

I'd believe it. I'm glad you've got someone like that on your side.

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[audacity]

...Me too. I've just about always had my mom, you know? Even when things were bad at school, or with my ex-stepfather, or with the gods, or monsters. She's always tried really hard for me.

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[spinebuddyandme]

I'm kinda jealous. Mine...

[ Lets that hang in the air for a minute while he measures out the chocolate to melt ]

I mean, she is great. I've seen her look scarier than any villain I've ever faced when she's standing up for me, but...she really freaked out when I came home with Scarab for the first time. I had to leave the house before my dad could get her to come back.

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[audacity]

[ listens, sympathetic, and doesn't seem surprised ]

Gods, that's rough. A lot of half-blood mortal parents are the same way. But she came around, right? You've made it sound like she's pretty okay with things now.

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[spinebuddyandme]

Yeah, once my dad talked to her. She even apologized about it, and she's been great since. It was just, y'know. A lot for her.

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[audacity]

[ hums thoughtfully as they work ]

What about your dad? He wasn't freaked out?

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[spinebuddyandme]

He was definitely freaked out, but he was more glad to have me back. I think he'd have been happy to see me even if I told him I'd joined some super villains D-tier henchmen squad.

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[audacity]

Wait, back it up. What do you mean back? And how old were you, anyway?

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[spinebuddyandme]

[ Immediately sobers, shoulders slumping and stuffing his hands in his pockets ]

I was 16. And, um...it's a long story, but I...ended up in a pocket dimension for a few minutes. But time worked differently in there and a whole year passed outside, so my family and everyone thought I'd died because I'd been missing for so long.

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[audacity]

[ eyes widen but not, like, as shocked as he could be ]

No wonder they were worried. And that's where you met Scarab?

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[spinebuddyandme]

No, I picked Scarab up outta the dirt walking to school one day. I wound up in a pocket dimension because we found out the hard way that Scarab was programmed to turn tail and run if he ever encountered a Green Lantern.

[ Quieter, clearly aside to Scarab ]

...Well you did.

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[audacity]

You picked him up out of the dirt?

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[spinebuddyandme]

Yeah. He was just on the ground by the sidewalk.

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[audacity]

Your parents never told you not to pick up strange space bugs?

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[spinebuddyandme]

Hey, I thought he was a paper weight! He didn't turn on til after I took him home.

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[audacity]

I dunno if the paper weight defense is better or worse.

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[spinebuddyandme]

There's no way it's worse.

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[audacity]

Who uses a paper weight anymore?

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[spinebuddyandme]

People with a lotta papers. I keep school notes on my desk.

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[audacity]

[ straight-faced, ]

I've never heard of "school notes," but they sound like they suck.

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[spinebuddyandme]

[ snorts ]

They are the only reason I took Scarab home that day, but I still can't argue with that.