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[noarchitact]

WHO: You, you, & you.
WHERE: the Pasture!
WHEN: Day 91

[ 🐑 baaa. ]

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[abandon_hope]

...

If it were just age, then it wouldn't have been a choice.

[audacity]

[ well. shrugs ]

[abandon_hope]

We both know how it works. You had the better claim, yeah, but there's always something you can do. My sister ...

[ he trails off. ]

[audacity]

[ gently ]

...could rest easier, knowing there was one less thing for you to worry about. Hopefully.

[abandon_hope]

[ damn it. his voice wobbles a bit. ]

That's - true but not - I meant she could have chosen the prophecy too, but she chose the Hunters instead.

[audacity]

Yeah. And Thalia did the same thing.

[ and maybe jason was ?? in reserve ?? if something happened to kevin and ceph ]

It was the right thing for me to do. That's all there is to it. I never wished I'd left it to you or anything.

[abandon_hope]

... Of course not. You're Cepheus - something.

[ he wants to say your full name so bad but it won't come to mind. ]

I just didn't know you had. Or that you did it while you thought I wanted to kill you.

[audacity]

Come on, it didn't matter for you to know. It doesn't change anything.

[abandon_hope]

I'm not blaming you. I'm - feeling things, okay?

[audacity]

[ WHEEZE ]

Okay, okay, sorry. You should say what you need to.

[abandon_hope]

Okay. Because -

[ Ugh, he puts his face in his hands. ]

It's a good feeling, just big. Knowing that anyone cared about me in that point in my life.

[audacity]

Yeah, well. I didn't come looking for you that summer just because Bianca was haunting me about you. Though that didn't hurt.

[abandon_hope]

[ he opens his mouth. closes it. decides ... not to comment on his sister's ghost, because that's a different kind of big feeling ...

(why didn't she come to him directly -

he knows why she didn't come to him directly.) ]

You cared.

[audacity]

[ (they both know why she didn't come to him directly)

lil shoulder nudge ]

I cared. I still do.

[abandon_hope]

[ maybe a small lean back. and a sniffle. ]

Where's my stupid vial.

[audacity]

[ surprised into a laugh ]

Sorry, I didn't bring a spare with me.

[abandon_hope]

I gotta start doing that.

[ He swipes at his face. ]

[audacity]

Seriously.

[ transfers the remaining memory coin from his right hand to his left as he briefly checks his pockets but...nah, no extras ]

You should tag along the next time I watch some sad movies to refill mine.

[abandon_hope]

[ Kevin still looks up at that remaining memory coin. ]

Does that work for you?

[audacity]

Some movies, yeah.

[ following his gaze ]

I was thinking of trying one more. Just to be sure.