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Kind of me right now.

[ but wait, he remembers this from the powerpoint ]

Mute?

[ bubbles smugly ]

YeS.

Okay, that's pretty cool.

[ amphibious self-satisfaction intensifies ]

yEes

[ swims a lil closer ]

I wanted to see how you were doing after [ waves hand ], but I guess the answer is...frog?

[ grinning as he says that though ]

[ meets him halfway with a couple lazy kicks ]

CcoOl, yEes?

Super, super cool. Have you always been able to do that?

Nno, iTt . . . Is. . . A . . . [ croaks. God people words are even worse like this. ]

Can you speak Frog?

Yeah.

[ or rather, he speaks the same way he always does, but mute will understand it as frog and he'll understand what they say ]

This is fine.

Thank fuck.

[ their voice is somehow much smoother and confident when speaking Frog. ]

I have induced lycanthropy from when I was much younger, but all the different magics in my blood have complicated things somewhat. The frog form wasn’t working for a while but now it’s back.

...You're a were-frog?

It's more complicated than that, but yes. In becoming the Pillar, my party obtained power, it made us stronger. But I didn't want to be stronger. I wanted to be a frog.

So I was.

[ feels slow, but can't help the way his attention snags on that ]

The Pillar thing gave you the ability to frog?

Mm. It’s a pseudo-apotheosis. I don’t know much magic theory, but the Pillar functions as an artificial demigod.

[ maybe a sharp breath is less obvious underwater. don't like that information one bit! ]

So why do you still have the frog power? I mean, I'm glad since you want it, but I thought the Pillar thing is better now?

[ shrugs. Who knows how wizard shit works. Not frogs that’s for sure. ]

[ fair. and it's not like he can ask more questions without being extremely revealing in ways he does not want to be! ]

...Guess it doesn't matter.

Lots of things have been done to me that I don't understand. You're the same, aren't you?

[ eyebrow lift ]

I was born a demigod. And everything weird that's happened to me — and trust me, there's been a lot — was something I chose. Or most of it.

[ he did not CHOOSE the memory loss, HERA, but. he did willingly bear the curse of achilles, and that of atlas a year before. chose too the loss of that invulnerability, to host a different goddess's power when reality was at stake. chose this, too, now. ]

[ Their head tips, froggy body language contemplative. They chose as well, didn’t they? Chose to live instead of dying with their family, chose to become the Master Warden’s protégé, chose to complete his blood rites for power. They chose to take the job from the Merisian Emprex, then chose to become the Pillar. ]

You don’t have to understand to chose.

[ considers that ]

You gotta understand the stakes. And what you're willing to live with. Or not.

[ or not: that is to say, or die for ]

Cepheus. Do you understand what you’ve given to Meris?

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