He's gonna change her like a remix, then he'll raise her like a phoenix

[otomechapilot]

(For a second, there's a certain gathering tension in the network. Both bewilderment and fear. It comes to a head in a single, piercing telepathic cry, not quite a scream, over the network.)

Oh my GOD, what did I DO!?

Oh my god I nearly killed Hebe! Is - was Hebe one of ours?! Was Atlas? Athena? Nike?! Kallias!? The manticore!? Doctor whatsisname was definitely one of ours but I just -

Oh god oh god please tell me I didn't kill any of ours.

Comments

Private, Psychic Protection I

[otomechapilot]

Okay. Okay. So I wasn't a - my other half was a friend of Kallias, at least, and we saved some lives at the end. There's that much.

I definitely remember fighting some people who weren't monsters. But I... wow the Greeks had some weird hang ups.

Is this going to keep happening?

Private, Psychic Protection II

[leftbehindagain]

[Once he catches her locking down the conversation, he meets her in the middle and locks down the whole thing.]

What, infiltrating? Probably. I've infiltrated around half of the jaunts I've been on.

Permaprotected until stated otherwise

[otomechapilot]

Was Kanji himself? Should I talk to him? It's okay for him to hear this conversation.

I didn't even know I could make it private, it just kind of happened.

[leftbehindagain]

...Yes and no. I snapped him back to himself a couple of weeks in.

Filtering stuff can be useful, but if you don't need it to be you can take it back down.

[otomechapilot]

He... sort of got his act together when things started getting crazy. I thought it was just Kallias rising to the occasion while I was still in Spartan Mode...

If I'm super lost you have permission to do that to me. Please.

It was... she was pretty much what I'd be like brought up as a Spartan, down to what happened to my parents. That's... maybe something I should keep psi locked for now.

[leftbehindagain]

That was probably me putting Kanji back in the driver's seat, at least in part. I figured he'd rather be frustrated with the state of things for a little while than stuck feeling like he hadn't done enough after the fact, and he told me to watch out for a situation like that.

If I'm there and myself to do it for you, I will. It doesn't kick you back to your own body, though, so you'd still be sharing until the jaunt ended. [Or until her overlay got killed, but why go into that if they don't have to.]

Overlays can be ridiculously on point sometimes. Are you all right?

[otomechapilot]

No but I will be. Probably. Thank you.

...food that's not meat on bread would help if it's not too much trouble.

[leftbehindagain]

Kanji's probably got some set up in Aiya, by now. Assuming he didn't run headlong into a dungeon, anyway. If he hasn't, I can make something.

[otomechapilot]

Sure. And I should probably brush up on the Major Arcana.

...after we both eat and take a nice long nap, I think. I'm pretty sure... well, Achaea won. I think that's good enough.

[leftbehindagain]

That they did. [So did Chariot, if the carousel gimmick's anything to go by - which means they can rest a little easier, in terms of the overall outcome of this mess.]