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[aegist]

WHO: thalia grace & luke castellan!
WHERE: cabin 11. where else do they hang out, god.
WHEN: 4/5 afternoonish?
WHAT: thalia has new bling. also probably regains comparison and snark.
WARNINGS: maybe luke will get hit in the head with a shield we just don't know yet.

[ so it's wednesday afternoon and thalia doesn't have class until later and she doesn't have any shifts today. well, no more shifts today. she did the open shift at the candy shop and as a result brought in a pack of gummy worms she promptly tossed at luke's head. while technically ? this is a bar and it doesn't have a lunch menu she has chosen to come here for lunch, either by getting luke to feed her somehow or by dragging him out to go get some.

after assaulting luke with candy thalia slides onto her stool, crossing her arms on top of the bar. today she is notably wearing a new bracelet, a row of polished silver links latched around her wrist. considering thalia doesn't really go out of her way to get herself jewelry, this is kind of weird, but whatever. ]

I'm starving, what are you doing for lunch?

[ clearly lunch > this mysterious bracelet or whatever, right? ]

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[aegist]

If I have a memory about someone I recognize who isn't your or Annabeth who doesn't annoy me, I'll let you know. [ until then it's a moot point? she'll go in through the held-open door, though, and request a booth for them to get seated at. ],/small>

[chiseler]

Like that kid with the dark hair all three of us have memories about? [Just pointing that out. The waiter's probably nicer to Thalia than Luke seeing how they get a booth nearly immediately and menus are distributed. He's settling into the booth with his book, letting Thalia slide in across from him before he holds out a hand.]

Let me see that for a second. [He's talking about the bracelet, mostly.]

[aegist]

Yeah, if I see him in real life I'll let you know.

[ she holds out her hand with the bracelet attached to the wrist, not bothering to take it off. ]

[chiseler]

It's going to be hard finding a dark-haired green-eyed teenager that fits the bill, but maybe Annabeth will have an idea. [Even while he's talking he's taking her hand and bringing it up to eye level to examine the bracelet. He's leaving the journal on the table, too, as his fingers turn the bracelet in a circle to look at the links carefully.]

...I think I kind of remember something like this, too. In that memory with Annabeth in the alley. I didn't think anything of it since I was a little more weirded out by whatever I promised her, but if she got her knife back maybe they sent memory items out in a bulk package. Question now is why would you have a bracelet like this when we were kids?

[aegist]

I don't know, but I didn't have it with the dragon memory.

[ so it had to have happened...after that. if it had ever happened at all. thalia is frowning at the bracelet, uncertain what it is but knowing it's somehow important because she'd worn it - well, several times?

that sounded ridiculous. ]

But that was obviously before the alley. So I guess I...got it sometime between then? For some reason?

[chiseler]

Yeah. [He sounds just as every bit uncertain as she feels even as his eyes are fixated on the bracelet.] Let's order and then I need to show you something, all right? It might answer some questions now that I think about it. You know what you want?

[aegist]

Burgers aren't that hard. [ WHICH IS TO SAY YES she will order quickly and efficiently and a burger and lots of fries because fuck health she has to survive class after this and she just wants CARBS although she gets water. ]

[chiseler]

[And because he's lazy and also just very, very preoccupied with what he wants to show her he simply orders the same with a Coke and shoos the waiter away. It's only then that he drops her hand and pushes the journal across the table, eyeing it as if it'll sprout teeth and attack.]

Open that and tell me what you see. [After a handful of blank pages, that is. It'll become clear why he needed to show her.]

[aegist]

[ she sees...words. lots and lots of words. in luke's damn handwriting, so that's a trip? ]

Amaltheia. [ thalia tries the word out, almost frowning. ] The dragon, Annabeth - it's...

[ memories? ]

[chiseler]

[A solemn nod.]

Yeah. [He tries to remain casual in his speech, but it's hard when his fingers are drumming on the table.] Everything that's in that book is stuff I've had flashbacks to since this shit started. Can't explain most of it, but I remember remembering it. At first I thought it was just a joke but I don't think Retrospec's advanced enough to forge my own handwriting, too.

...remembers i never picked a regain for this. vaguely will go do that after this wtf.

[aegist]

[ well, at least nothing like a memory filling in has happened yet, luke! at least that. ]

No, I don't think so. I mean, look, they even smudge it right here like - this is too good to be a forgery. Which you obviously know. And we haven't really told anyone about these memories - not in this much detail. Right?

gj lucy

[chiseler]

[YET!!!]

Definitely not. [He stares down at the journal again.] The only memory I've really told anybody is about the dragon and that's really vague in here. Plus the memory about you, me and Annabeth in the back alley but that's been kept in the family so the rest of this...[He shakes his head.] The fire and everything, I remembered that a few weeks ago. So. Why now? Why did this show up?

[There's a pause.] I've been getting a couple of other memories involving you and me. The kids aren't in them though.

YOU CAN'T TALK, YOU DIDN'T EITHER

[aegist]

What other memories?

[ she can still have. two. for this thread, okay. but her eyebrows go up. She's paging through the book idly still, but not really registering the words, and eventually just pauses on a random page. ]

I've...had a few. You weren't in most of the most recent ones.

...STILL HAVENT.

[chiseler]

[It's probably the page where it's highlighted that Thalia's his only friend, lbr. But anyway his eyes are fixated on the bracelet again though he tenses up just slightly when she mentions memories without him.]

Everything in this book. Diary? Whatever this thing is. Those are all memories I've had, there are parts missing but for the most part it's in the right order up to when Annabeth comes in the picture. I think you and I might have been homeless? [He rubs the back of his neck...and stares at the bracelet one more time.] We were definitely following the goat for a reason.

GOOD JOB, TY, GO DO THAT

[aegist]

It might have been by choice. I mean, I had...an offer.

[ an offer she turned down, but. ]

Amaltheia - holy shit, I remember. [ her lips twist because. what. is she remembering here. ...

regretting the coke she just ordered a little bit? ]

DOESNT OUT OF SPITE :|

[chiseler]

[An offer? He lifts an eyebrow and he's about to ask, but no, that'll come in a second because Thalia's remembering the goat. Remembering the goat is definitely a thing happening.]

That's not a good look, you know. [He's still trying to make jokes what the fuck. But.] What exactly do you remember about the goat?

WOW

[aegist]

I remember wanting to speak to her, seeing her with you - she was important. And. She was - weird? There were teats for nectar, milk, water, pepsi, press here for ice, and diet mountain dew.

[ ????????? WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF GOAT ]

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[chiseler]

[...excuse him for suddenly laughing because out of everything he's ever heard, that's definitely not what he was expecting here.]

A glowing goat that we followed, you apparently dragged me who even knows how far after this dumb animal and then you read its teats? Can I ask why? [Little does he know.] Also we're sure it was a goat, right? Not a vending machine and we were just delirious from hunger?

[aegist]

Don't talk about her like that! [ annoyed, even though she has no right to be. ] No, that's just...what she looked like. Don't you remember?

[ amaltheia, and that still feels important but she still can't think why. ]

[chiseler]

It's a goat. It's not going to care if I call it dumb. [He takes the diary back, flipping back to the description of Amaltheia and...suddenly pausing. He winces slightly, a sharp pain in his head for a moment as he suddenly looks at the sodas on the table.]

It wasn't in English. [Uh. What?] And you didn't read them, that was all me? I think? [And since he's staring at the sodas he fails to notice that the diary begins to etch in a few words...

Thalia knelt next to the goat. “Amaltheia?”

The goat turned. She had sad amber eyes and a bronze collar around her neck. Fuzzy white light steamed around her body, but what really caught my attention were her udders. Each teat was labeled with Greek letters, like tattoos. I could read a little Ancient Greek—_________________ I guess. The teats read: Nectar, Milk, Water, Pepsi, Press Here for Ice, and Diet Mountain Dew. Or maybe I read them wrong. I hoped so.

Thalia looked into the goat’s eyes. “Amaltheia, what do you want me to do?”

The goat glanced at me. She looked a little miffed, like I was intruding on a private conversation.

I took a step back, resisting the urge to grab my weapon. Oh, by the way, my weapon was a golf club. Feel free to laugh. I used to___________________. Now all I had was a nine-iron that I carried on my back. Not exactly epic. If the goat went commando on us, I’d be in trouble.

I cleared my throat. “Um, Thalia?”

“______________________________”

“______________________________.

Thalia nodded. “So this goat, Amaltheia_______________.”

“On Diet Mountain Dew?” I asked.

Thalia frowned. “What?”

“Read the udders,” I said. “The goat has five flavors plus an ice dispenser.”

Okay then.]

[aegist]

[ thalia is about to argue about the goat further (why this) despite not knowing why she wants to, but she goes very still as she glances down at the page to gather her argument (Because I Said So is a strong component).

that's new. ]

Luke. [ is she crazy, or. ]

[chiseler]

What? [Being in the middle of having his mind blown doesn't help him sound any more calm than before, but his gaze rips from the sodas to her instead.] Thalia, that goat led you to that bracelet. You know that? That's it, that's why we were following the stupid thing.

[He's moving to grab for the book again and it's only then he notices:] ...tell me this didn't just happen.

[aegist]

What do you mean? Why would the goat lead us to my bracelet?

[ TELL HER WHAT YOU REMEMBERED - oh right. ]

...I mean, do you want me to lie to you now, or.

[chiseler]

No, don't lie to me yet. I'm the better liar of the two of us anyway, remember? [He's going to bury his face in his hands, dragging them over his eyes before muffling his voice.]

I don't know why the goat would lead us to your bracelet. But that's why we were in that house. And we...lit the house on fire? But we found your bracelet before that I think because you were wearing it before we were ran away. Check the diary, the whole account's in there. It's just that you were destined to find the thing. [A frown.]

It's not just a bracelet. It's a weapon.

[aegist]

A weapon. My bracelet? What, am I supposed to hit someone with it?

[ she's not incredulous because 1) horses don't exist and 2) she just saw a journal fill in before her eyes, but she does sound frustrated with the idea as she stares at her wrist.

what the hell are you, really? ]

I can't believe we were arsonists, except I totally can.