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[noarchitact]

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

[ 🐑 baaa. ]

Comments

[spinebuddyandme]

Talking, huh? About what?

[audacity]

My day, if you can believe it. She feeds on experiences, right? The newer the better.

[spinebuddyandme]

New like, recent? Or new like something she's never seen or you've never done?

[audacity]

...Like I've never done. Or felt. Which is, um, not too hard around here.

[spinebuddyandme]

How's it feel talking to her? Do you feel drained or anything afterwards?

[audacity]

[ shakes his head slowly, mostly because he can guess ananke's not going to like this answer ]

If it makes her stronger, it kind of makes me feel better too. The whole...connection thing.

[spinebuddyandme]

[ he sure does not ]

Sounds like an easy way for her to keep you talking.

[audacity]

Uh no, talking's just better than...

[ mmmpauses ]

...like. The better way to deal with her.

[spinebuddyandme]

Is that one of the things you want to wait to tell everyone about?

[audacity]

[ immeDIATELY, ]

Definitely not.

[ wait no ]

There was just one time I didn't, and that kind of sucked. But that's not really worth telling everyone about. It wasn't a big thing. And it doesn't help us with getting rid of her now.

[spinebuddyandme]

If it's not a big thing, then you shouldn't have a problem telling me what happened.

[audacity]

I mean, it can be not a big thing, and also something you'll definitely hate.

[spinebuddyandme]

[ doesn't frown any harder, but his annoyed Texan drawl sure slips through ]

Ya ain't makin' me wanna know any less.

[audacity]

[ heroically restrains himself from an absolutely horrible cowboy joke ]

Just...like. I can tell her, or she can go looking in my memories herself. It's way better to just talk about whatever.

[spinebuddyandme]

—She's been rooting around your brain?! What happened? You said she didn't hurt you—is that still true?

[audacity]

It's not hurting, it just sucks.

[spinebuddyandme]

Maybe it's not physically hurting, but digging around in your head when you don't want her to is messing with you. What would you say if Kevin told you something did that to him? Or Annabeth?

[audacity]

That is such a low blow!

[ but doesn't sound like, mad about it. then adds, with enough grace to look abashed, ]

She found one of my nightmares once. Of — don't freak out.

[spinebuddyandme]

It's a fair blow!

[ There's a brief war on his face as he fights the immediate reaction to get angry—no way any good can come from a malicious god finding nightmares.

Takes a deep breath once his expression evens out again ]

I promise not to.

[audacity]

[ breathes oUT like, ]

She found a Tartarus nightmare and decided to ask me about it, with a full 360 experience. But that only happened once.

1/2

[spinebuddyandme]

2/2

[spinebuddyandme]

[ Takes a shaky breath, color draining from his face as the weight of that sinks in ]

"Only" once, like that's no big deal? I've seen what Tartarus is, ese.

Re: 2/2

[audacity]

Still wish you hadn't.

[ not meeting his eyes about it tho ]

It was for like, a minute. And I was asking for it. I mean that literally — I told her to prove she could really do anything to me.

Re: 2/2

[spinebuddyandme]

You didn't ask for her to dig out one of the worst things she could find.

Re: 2/2

[audacity]

...so like. It's been better to stick to talking, obviously.

[ let's just move right along ]