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[crittersheep]

WHO: all of you
WHERE: day 74
WHEN: through the day tbh

[there's trauma approaching in the distance but it ain't showing up quite yet THIS day!

it's a really beautiful day, actually. sunny and deeply pleasant weather. maybe sometime today people might return from a snadventure (snake adventure), or maybe not? the wildlife and your lil resident sheep are all perky and up and at 'em and full of energy. hopping.

what about you?]

Comments

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[audacity]

You're not gonna like the answer.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[featherduster]

It's fine, it happens all the time.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[audacity]

If you say so.

I asked for her to leave. Cut back on the eating worlds and hurting people like Mute. Safe passage for everyone out of the...uh, we all got dragged into her realm, or something, after you fixed the gate. Safe passage out of there.

She wanted a sea demigod of her own.

[ shrugs ]

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[featherduster]

[ Stares at him for a VERY long moment ]

So... did we just trade Mute for you?

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[audacity]

No.

[ maybe a little ]

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[featherduster]

[ NO HE'S PRETTY SURE THAT'S WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE! ]

Cepheus.....

What does she expect from you? Physically. Mentally.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[audacity]

[ SHHHH ]

She didn't really give me a manual. But it's not...like, it's not the same thing. No agonies, promise.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[featherduster]

Is there a gate?

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[audacity]

No. It's — "son of Meris." That's what she calls me now. The magic is different.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[featherduster]

. . .




[ BRISTLES ]

Pretty damn presumptuous of her.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[audacity]

I know, right? Not surprising that she sucks, but still.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[featherduster]

Something tells me the deal doesn't involve her unconditional support and nurturing with no expectations in return.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[audacity]

Yeah, that'd be the day. But it's nothing I can't handle. I told you that I'm used to dealing with gods; I meant that.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[featherduster]

You're masterfully avoiding actually admitting to what she expects from you.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[audacity]

[ optimistically, ]

Because it doesn't really matter?

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[featherduster]

[ SLOWLY ]

"It doesn't matter"?

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[audacity]

[ oh boy ]

We really didn't talk about it much. But it's also not your problem.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[featherduster]

[ BOLD ANGLE TO TAKE WITH THE GUY WHO LITERALLY JUST DIED TO REMOVE A FISH CONTRACT FROM A LILYBELL TEENAGER ]

Mute's contract wasn't my problem either. It wasn't any of ours. So did it not matter?

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[audacity]

— That's not what I meant. Of course that mattered.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[featherduster]

Then give me one good reason it shouldn't matter that you're now in a similar position.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[audacity]

[ he should've expected this after the earful he got yesterday, and yet. here we are. opens and closes his mouth, looks down. sighs. ]

It's not the same thing. She...as far as I can tell, she broke my father's power in me. His influence is gone. It's all her now. But there's no...I don't really feel different. No evil fish hatred, or death, or agonies, or whatever. No gate, I don't think. It's not what Mute was going through.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[featherduster]

[ TAKES A SIP OF COFFEE TO KEEP HIS COOL ]

Not knowing the terms doesn't make it less bad. For all we know, it's worse.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[audacity]

I can handle it.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[featherduster]

Mute said that too.

[ No they didn't but he's lying and manipulating for a good cause. ]

Just because you can doesn't mean that you should, or will.

Re: @ lilybell kitchen

[arrowace]

[ ah, he’s misrepresenting what I said to win an argument with another kid. We truly are just like a real family. ]