commandertoolbelt | seasonality ✦ tsuyukusa

Do you have a lot of experience with people trying to kill you? Like that goddess Khione.

[ weighs hands ]

Since the past year? Yeah. It's kind of a thing for demigods. Most of us don't survive long past age 18 - at least on the Greek side. The Romans have this whole town where they can live safely, but...

[ he shifts uncomfortably. ]

We've just got a summer camp, and we can't stay there forever. But once we're out of the borders, we're a lot easier for monsters to find and track down.

[UM???? INSTANT ALARM???]

Wh-Well you can't stay there if it's going to be like that!!
[NO DYING AT 18 ALLOWED.]

Where else am I supposed to go? I have to go back to finish the prophecy.

I don't know! You could- After you finish that come to Higan with me?

Higan...? That's part of Amatsuki?

[Shakes his head.]

That's the "real" world. Where Shinonome and Toki are from. Plus Bon's "real" body.

Oh.

[ . . . ]

Well, maybe I will - at least to visit. But I'll probably still need to find a way to replicate the protection magic from camp to make it safe...

[ he's going into thinky mode now ]

I'm sure between you, Shinonome, and Bon you could figure something out.

[gestures at the protective charm in Leo's hands that he said he modeled on one Bon made.]

[ glances at the charm... ]

Mm. Maybe. Magic has never been my strong suit, though, so they'll probably be better at it.

[The jokes on both of them because magic doesn't exist in Higan at all.]

I wonder if you'll even be able to visit, though... I don't really know how dimensional travel works.

Isn't it just Japan? I could probably make that in, like, a week or so with the ship. Or even with Festus, once he's rebuilt.

[ no one ever said they were different earths. ]

[THINKS.]

I guess I don't know what Higan is like. It could be the same world as yours. I would like to see Festus, too.

You will - and the real thing this time, not a fraud! I bet he'll be excited to meet someone else who can understand him.

Yeah!
[He is visibly excited! Festus deserves a reward for not being people.]

There's dragon ayakashi but I've never met one before.

[ leo would agree with that ]

Same hat - I've never met one either. [ he's still not entirely sure what an ayakashi is tbh. ] Gods, I can't wait to get him fixed up again, too. I know he misses flying.