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it is still so much. kevin feels a bit like he's staring into the sun.

but he reaches out for a tendril of it? something that's flopped over Aide's shoulder maybe. ]

[ leans over a bit so it's easier to touch

it doesn't really feel like hair, because there aren't any individual strands and if he tugs he can just pass his fingers right through it, but it's solid enough that it can be styled. it's kind of impossibly soft by way of being a texture that does not occur in nature?? there's definitely a faint warmth to it. ]

[ that's actually really nice? like touching what he THINKS a cloud would feel like before actually finding out how gross and cold and insubstantial clouds are.

He winds up playing with it just a little; he likes the way the light plays over his hand. ]

Huh. Not what I was expecting.

[ it goes a lil bit pink at the ends ]

D-did you think it would burn or something...

[ huh

huh?? ]

Well - kind of? That's how the Phlegethon feels. Burning without burning. This is even less than that.

... Why's it pink?

[ IT GOES PINKER. reaches up and just. covers the pink part with his hand. ]

W-well, it changes to orange when I'm mad but um. Sometimes it also changes colors if I get, um, like, flustered or whatever. I-it's fine, it'll go back to normal in a bit.

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You're blushing.

I-it's not a 1:1 thing!

[ sorry kevin has no idea how to cope with people blushing in his vicinity. this is genuine curiosity. ]

Then why else does it happen?

I-it happens if I get praised too much or like well actually it happens if I get praised at all a-and it happens when people are nice or neutral about stuff that people are usually mean about b-but BLUSHING blushing can also be from embarrassment or humiliation or anger and it doesn't happen then s-so it's not 1:1.

[ oh no. this is really cute actually? dad was never this cute. ]

So it shows your mood, pretty much.

K-kinda... I know it's weird but normally it just stays blue which isn't like NOT weird but it's standard weird s-so it's not like a full mood ring thing...

But it covers the big ones. That counts.

It also gets brighter when I'm excited... and dimmer when I'm bored...

[ hm ]

So if it's dim I should probably shut up and leave, huh.

I-I don't think you're boring though.

Even demigods get boring eventually.

Maybe... b-but, it's not like my attention span is that short either...

...Guess not.

[ he gestures at the. projects?? ]

Looks like you're working on a bunch of stuff.

[ nods!! ]

We've got a bunch of stuff going... um, we're building some drones, like a horse friend for Naythan, and I'm rebuilding one of the devices I use back home and also we're building a communication array satellite to hack into the wolves' signal frequencies and spy on them.

...

Sorry, a satellite?

Yeah! It's the biggest project I've tried since getting here for sure. MAYBE the biggest project I've done in years? One time I did make Pegasus a body that could enter low orbit for a school festival but this is actually meant to stay up there longterm without direct intervention so it's a little different.

—- what’s a school festival?

It's like, an event that a school holds every year because of traditions and stuff. This one was the Star Sending festival where everyone makes a wish on a star piece and then we hang them all on a tree and do a stupid song and dance about it so they'll come true. I got randomly selected to be one of the Star Gazers this year, so Pegasus came along with me... I was gonna phone it in initially but he really wanted it to succeed, so. When the event was gonna be cancelled due to a thunderstorm I made him gear so he could take all the stats directly to space instead.

……

Your - uh - your school sounds like a lot.