[ okay, so maybe she's really not great at asking people anything, considering how this is going, but she's also not backing down from this one, because they have a truce, right? she's trying, in all her backwards ways, to uphold that — percy might be great moral support, but he doesn't know enough about the war to understand the stakes here. he's a better people-person, sure, but he's just as good as pissing off important people as she is. they probably wouldn't make the greatest diplomatic team. and, honestly, she hadn't even thought of asking percy. ]
[ maybe what she really needs more than the quick there and gone is luke's ... guidance? she has no idea what she's doing, and it's not like she's ever looked up to percy for anything. percy's never been that example she's striven to be like — that's always been luke, even if she lost her faith in him when she thought he turned his back on them for himself, which she knows now isn't true. she hated him for everything he did during the war, but isn't that only because she did respect him and look up to him? the betrayal of someone you don't care about might sting, but the betrayal of someone she cared too much about may as well have been a sword through her chest. the wound is still there, but instead of letting it constantly get infected by ignoring it exists at all, she's finally starting to accept it and trying to let it heal. ]
Look, I'm not saying your shit's not important. You don't think they wouldn't want two of their greatest champions working together? [ okay, sure, she's pulling the knight card. but she's a little desperate and, not that she'd ever admit it, a little bit scared. she doesn't want to fuck this up, not when ridire is counting on her. but this isn't like the sea of monsters. this isn't her territory. it's not a huge quest fighting monsters and running into danger. it's not something she knows like the back of her hand. so if it's a please he wants, a please he'll get. ] Please. A couple days. That's it. [ she almost says, i won't like it anymore than you will, but she thinks it better to keep her mouth shut, considering sincerity is what she's trying to go for here. ]
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[ maybe what she really needs more than the quick there and gone is luke's ... guidance? she has no idea what she's doing, and it's not like she's ever looked up to percy for anything. percy's never been that example she's striven to be like — that's always been luke, even if she lost her faith in him when she thought he turned his back on them for himself, which she knows now isn't true. she hated him for everything he did during the war, but isn't that only because she did respect him and look up to him? the betrayal of someone you don't care about might sting, but the betrayal of someone she cared too much about may as well have been a sword through her chest. the wound is still there, but instead of letting it constantly get infected by ignoring it exists at all, she's finally starting to accept it and trying to let it heal. ]
Look, I'm not saying your shit's not important. You don't think they wouldn't want two of their greatest champions working together? [ okay, sure, she's pulling the knight card. but she's a little desperate and, not that she'd ever admit it, a little bit scared. she doesn't want to fuck this up, not when ridire is counting on her. but this isn't like the sea of monsters. this isn't her territory. it's not a huge quest fighting monsters and running into danger. it's not something she knows like the back of her hand. so if it's a please he wants, a please he'll get. ] Please. A couple days. That's it. [ she almost says, i won't like it anymore than you will, but she thinks it better to keep her mouth shut, considering sincerity is what she's trying to go for here. ]