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[yearrounder]

[This would have been text if Annabeth could actually spell, but audio works just as well. No hints of where she is, at least, and with recent...events that's probably safer. Or maybe she's just honed her paranoia so well that it's second nature by this point. Probably that last one. There are more than a few people who would agree.]

Has anyone else noticed that it's been...I don't know, sort of quiet since the... [she doesn't want to say "Null" out loud. That's an old habit.] ...announcement? I don't know, I guess I figured things would be a little more chaotic. Maybe I missed something, but it's quieter than I expected.

[It doesn't seem like a bloodbath at least? That counts as a victory? Maybe?]

As quiet as it ever gets, anyway. I mean I feel like everyone already knows that it's never too quiet.

It could be worse, I guess.

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[paragonbrosca]

Yeah, that's what I thought. 'Nice' has its limits.

Used to...talking to gods at home?

[yearrounder]

Just because some of them are nicer than others doesn't mean I entirely trust them.

[Crap.]

I didn't say that.

[paragonbrosca]

Okay, that's just what it sounded like.

No one should, really. Especially not after those dreams. Fuck them for poking around in our heads like that.

[yearrounder]

[Whew bullet dodged.]

That was honestly one of the tamer things they've tried.

[paragonbrosca]

What's on the worse end? I want to be prepared.

[yearrounder]

Making everyone think they're in stupid happy perfect life and then taking it away at the end even if it was weird to suddenly be related to a friend? I mean I've heard about worse things too. Sorrow, Fear, and Rage aren't exactly happy things to invoke in people.

[paragonbrosca]

Yeah, I got that much with dreamtime shenanigans.

...they had you remembering a whole other life? Like you forgot everything that made you who you are?

[Yeah, uneasy. She doesn't at all relish the idea of essentially being someone else, even for a while.]

[yearrounder]

Not everything. But basically.

[paragonbrosca]

...fuck.

[yearrounder]

Uh... yeah. That.