...I want to ask her about it, but I don't think she'd appreciate it. She seemed annoyed when I was asking her questions because I was worried she'd gotten hurt...
You miss all the shots you don't take. And once she's "expelled" there'll be no way of figuring it out, either.
I'm not really the best at talking to people - that's Piper's thing - but if you need someone there for moral support or whatever, I don't mind lending a hand.
[i pASSED OUT BEFORE I COULD ASK FRANCY FOR A PC so lila will not go visit kaoruko.
ostensibly it's because she chickened out. really it's because she doesn't actually care.]
That's really kind of you to offer, Leo. Thank you. I'll think about it a little more... I just don't want to make this harder for her than it already is.
It could have been self-defense, though. We don't know, because she wouldn't tell us, but... if people called you a murderer because your hands were a little red and because a dog didn't like you, would you want to talk to them?
...and then enough of us voted for her that we might as well have outright accused her, in her mind. Right?
[because she's the one that came up guilty. if not that many people had voted, it might have been one of the other names...
she sighs, shaking her head.]
But I don't know what else we were supposed to do. It... didn't seem like there was anyone else that it could have been. And since it turned out that she did do it, if someone else had received those votes, when they didn't even do anything...
It's just a horrible situation no matter how you look at it.
Yeah, exactly. Doesn't matter if we were right, she didn't want to be caught, either way.
[ he pokes absently at the flames, not really paying attention when they lick at his fingers a little. ]
I think we did the best thing we could. We'll find out if they mean anything weird about expelling someone later, but whatever it is, it's probably better it's not someone who wasn't even involved getting punished. Not that it makes it better, but if we're going to be forced to vote anyway...
What, would you rather get all depressed about it? If you ask me, the more important thing is making the most of what we've got, and you can't do that if you're too focused on everything else.
What a demigod deserves or doesn't deserve was never part of the equation, Lila. It's not like I want to die, because I don't. But there's I can't really change that there's still a good possibility of it happening.
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Gods, I hope not. But we still don't know why it happened this time, so it's not like we have a basis to try to prevent it.
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I'm not really the best at talking to people - that's Piper's thing - but if you need someone there for moral support or whatever, I don't mind lending a hand.
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ostensibly it's because she chickened out. really it's because she doesn't actually care.]
That's really kind of you to offer, Leo. Thank you. I'll think about it a little more... I just don't want to make this harder for her than it already is.
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[ the last part of what she says makes him wince a little and turn his eyes away. ]
Depends on how they go about it. No one was outright accusing her, but she assumed we thought it was her anyway and just made it harder on all of us.
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[because she's the one that came up guilty. if not that many people had voted, it might have been one of the other names...
she sighs, shaking her head.]
But I don't know what else we were supposed to do. It... didn't seem like there was anyone else that it could have been. And since it turned out that she did do it, if someone else had received those votes, when they didn't even do anything...
It's just a horrible situation no matter how you look at it.
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[ he pokes absently at the flames, not really paying attention when they lick at his fingers a little. ]
I think we did the best thing we could. We'll find out if they mean anything weird about expelling someone later, but whatever it is, it's probably better it's not someone who wasn't even involved getting punished. Not that it makes it better, but if we're going to be forced to vote anyway...
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Leo, your hands--
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[ he jerks back, shaking his hands and patting them on his pants to stamp out any flames with a frown. ]
...Sorry. I'm still not used to having to watch out for that.
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[she looks! very deeply concerned!]
Does it hurt? We could go get cold water, or ice...
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...Nah, I think it'll be okay. I've seen worse than a few sparks.
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[oh, that's right. what he'd said at trial - ]
...because of how dangerous things are for you, back at your camp?
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[so he's just going to accept dying young?? that's depressing.]
That's really how you feel about it...?
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...sorry. It's just hard to hear, I guess. But it must be even harder to live it.
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Like I said, you get used to it. Besides, my life's been better after going to camp than it ever was before, so I'm not going to complain.
[ no need to worry about old repair boy here it's all good ha ha ha ]
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