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[ SHOCKINGLY, papika is having difficulty going to sleep after the events of the trial. perhaps she had too much pizza and now has an upset stomach? maybe she is traumatized for life after the cannibal reveal? who knows.

either way, she's going to quietly leave her room. she's not entirely sure what she's looking for, but she still ends up poking her head into every one of the hotel's common rooms until she reaches the lounge. spotting percy inside, she realizes that it wasn't a what, but a who.

somewhat shyly, papika walks over to where he's sitting. ]

Hi Percy.

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Of course I won't tell!

[ she sounds insulted that he would even ask that. ]

[A quiet laugh.]

Sorry, I'm so used to asking that. ...you know how Damian's the Bounty Leader? We found the rest of the Bounties. And...Natalie and Shinnosuke were helping us. So's Jason. The other two are Milla and Noctis.

You can trust these people.

[ that leaves barnham, ash, and rin. papika is quiet for a moment. ]

Do you guys have any ideas then?

Our biggest idea was to work together and not kill each other but now that Hal's spoken up we're sort of back to square one. We've kicked around a lot of ideas including some less than happy ones. [A frown.]

Did Damian tell you about the train, Papika?

[ she shakes her head. ]

No. I haven't really been told much, you guys like to baby me.

[Oh. This conversation with a different pure. He just sighs.]

It's not about babying you, Papika. It's about keeping you safe because...I mean, Dr. Lecter and Will are crazy. Will knew everything about this game, and we figured the less people who had information, the safer they'd be.

[He frowns.] The train is where all of our friends are. When we die, we show up there. That's why some of us are getting letters and stuff. Xion told me once. Milla did, too.

I don't really like not being able to help.

[ she doesn't anything after that for a good few seconds. when she does talk again, it's to tackle the other topic. ]

That explains why more shadows kept appearing.

I know, I know. But you've been helping in other ways, you know? You're the one I asked to stay outside with me and Damian. That's pretty big stuff. You're also one of the only ones to know about Damian, too. It was pretty important.

But you're right. That's why more shadows kept appearing. All of our friends are hanging out in there waiting for us. We just have to figure out a way to be with them again. That's what we're working on now.

[ she just shrugs.

also wtf everyone else just hanging out in a train sounds so much better than sitting in whole ass? unfair?? ]

I'm sure you'll figure something out. You're very smart, Percy. And so is everyone else, but... if anyone can think of something, I think you can.

That's putting a lot of faith in me, Papika. [He rolls his eyes fondly.] Annabeth usually comes up with the plans. I'm still trying to figure out her letters.

Let me ask you something else. What would you want in the end?

[ shut up percy you're a protag ]

I just want everyone to be able to go back home. Whatever home is for them. [ ... ] Asking for something like this to never happen again is probably not possible, huh?

[He didn't ask for this???]

I think that's what I want, too. There are a lot of people here that home probably isn't an option for them anyway. After everything, we should have the choice. [But there's a shrug.] I don't know. What would hurt in asking though? I've asked for bigger things at home before and that worked out weirdly well.

We'd have to be careful how we ask, I think. Wording is everything.

How would you ask?

[ since... true, she wouldn't put it past hal or his employers to screw them over just because they phrase their request in a certain way. and papika is fairly aware of the power words have. ]

Probably something like...send everyone to the place they would consider home once they got there. Home is where your friends and family are, so why shouldn't we be allowed to go home with other people?

Hm... I think that sounds about right!

[ and she's not sure how else they could word it, anyway. ]

I need to go back home to Cocona.

[He blinks in surprise.]

Who's Cocona?

[ ....... give papika a minute as she mentally goes over all of their conversations and then realizes in horror she has never once mentioned cocona to percy

or

anything at all about her life at home WHOOPS it's fine ]

She's my partner.

[.......Papika. To be fair Percy's never really asked either.]

A partner, huh? [He's thinking Cocona's like an Annabeth, really.] What are you guys doing back home?

[ she is exactly like an annabeth. ]

We were looking for fragments of something that'll grant a wish. She was... kind of mad at me though, right before I was brought here.

[Fragments of something that'll grant a wish. Okay. He'll come back to that in a bit.]

...what happened? That made her mad, I mean.

She found out that I used to have another partner... I guess she thinks I was just using her as a replacement.

[ there's a brief look of disbelief on papika's face like she's having trouble wrapping her head around that concept. ]

Mimi is a good friend of mine, but Cocona's... different. She's super, duper important! But, um, I woke up on the train before I could explain that to her.

[...this sounds familiar. This sounds like:]

...I don't know, sometimes girls are weird. [Percy, Papika is a girl in case you forgot.] I have a friend, name's Rachel. We've known each other for a couple of years and sometimes Annabeth would get really mad at me for talking to Rachel, too. She stopped after we started dating and got that Rachel wouldn't replace her though. [It just took him a while to figure it out.]

When we get out of here, you'll be able to explain everything to Cocona. Are you going to tell her about this place?

I... don't know.

[ exactly how do you explain to someone you were thrust into the wild wild west version of the hunger games?? ]

She never liked it when I got hurt, she almost stopped going on adventures with me because of it. [ ... ] Maybe? It might depend on how she takes the other stuff I have to tell her first.

[That's fair enough. He can respect that even if he's aware he could easily explain this to his friends and they'd probably just nod along and accept it and be not at all surprised he lived this long. So he's quiet for a moment.]

You have time to figure everything out. Maybe write her a letter while you're here so you know exactly what to tell her when you see her again. Some people have been doing that around here. [Another pause.] Natalie wrote a letter to a bunch of us before she died. It's not a bad idea.

[...wait though.] I don't get it though, why would she stop going on adventures with you just because you got hurt? Wouldn't that be more reason to stick together?

[ the natalie mention makes her frown. papika still isn't over what happened to her since... you know. that was A Lot.

at his question though, the frown just deepens. papika has tried to explain this to several others before, and none of them has really got it. she wonders if she should just approach the topic from a different angle. ]

The fragments we were collecting... they're in another world, and only certain people can go to it. I can only go there if I'm with Cocona, so if she decides to stop, then for her, we wouldn't be doing dangerous stuff anymore. [ a pause. ] She didn't want to do it at all at first. The first few times we visited it was on accident so she didn't have a choice.

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spends a full minute laughing @ percy jackson

I figured if anyone would appreciate it it would be you tbqh

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