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[truesight]

[ alright, time to be annoying for the sake of rounding up the troops. the demigod troops, to be exact, but it's those particular hooligans that she's been feeling a desperate need to round up and talk to for some time now. too much has gone on, and there hasn't been enough talking about it, as far as she's concerned. so, maybe she's hoping being the resident not-demigod camper might get her some pull for this kind of thing. she'll even get on camera and glow menacingly if she has to, but. hopefully she won't. for their sakes, of course!! that ish is crazy intimidating, and she doesn't actually want to scare them into meeting up. but yeah, so. anyway... ]

Have you ever picked
up an awful habit from
someone you know well?

Apollo always
writes terrible haikus and
sometimes I do, too.

So now I'm writing
to tell my demigod friends -
it's time to meet up.

I don't care where, but
if you say no, I'll never
stop the haiku-talk.

Let's pick a time and
place right now to avoid this
horrible fate. 'Kay?

[ gold. ]

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[oursavinggrace]

[okay for real now.]

Why haikus?

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[truesight]

[ oh great, now you can hear/see her tapping out the syllables with her hairbrush against her knee, just at the bottom of the frame ]

I don't know you'd have
to ask Apollo that, but
it made you look, right?

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[oursavinggrace]

Does he really do that? Apollo, I mean.

[this is destroying his image of the sun god. he could have gone his whole life without knowing that apollo is actually a huge loser if not for this.]

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[truesight]

[ she opens her mouth to haiku at him again, but huff, that's exhausting ]

Oh yeah, he so does. Not like, every time he talks or anything, but boy does he think he's the best haiku-ist in the whole cosmos. I'll give him one thing, though, he is really good at counting syllables in his head. It's impressive.

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[oursavinggrace]

[sorry lord apollo, his mental image of you has been tainted forever.]

The gods didn't really interact with demigods much on the Roman side, so I've never met him. And our augur didn't do the haiku thing. He just...uh, disemboweled a lot of stuff animals.

[truesight]

-- Sorry, he what?

[oursavinggrace]

It's a Roman thing. The augur is kind of like the Roman equivalent of the Oracle. They have their different kinds of divination to interpret prophecies and divine the will of the gods. "Augury" actually has something to do with observing birds as an omen, I think, but ours was more into haruspication -- divining things based on the entrails of sacrificed animals.

[ew. and yeah, no one is at all surprised that that guy went with the more gruesome option as far as divination goes.]

We don't actually sacrifice animals anymore these days, though, so Octavian just cut open stuffed animals and read their stuffing instead.

[truesight]

That-

[ oh wait ]

No offense, [ that makes this better ] but that tradition sounds- completely archaic. Is that why he was such a grouch? Because he doesn't actually have the Sight and has to sacrifice teddybears to get someone to show him a little some'something from the future to keep his title?

[ so offended ]

He didn't believe me when I told him I was the Oracle. He didn't think she was real, I guess. Now I get why, considering- that.

[oursavinggrace]

[he raises his hands submissively, just shrugging.]

Hey, I'm not arguing with you. I never really cared about the tradition to begin with, and Octavian is a grade-A asshole. He's a legacy of Apollo -- as in, somewhere further up in his family line, someone was a kid of Apollo -- and he's been riding on that ever since he came to Camp Jupiter.

[truesight]

What's frustrating is that maybe he is supposed to be your version of the Oracle, maybe he can predict things. But he's probably got his head too far up his butt to actually tap into it and see. If he wasn't such a jerk I would offer to help him with that, but nope.

[oursavinggrace]

Maybe once everything's calmed down and we've got him tied up in a corner or something, you can give him a lecture on actual prophecies and all that.

[he'd certainly pay to watch that.]

[truesight]

[ .....HEH ]

Yeah, you know, I wouldn't mind having that opportunity at all. I could probably convince Apollo to rattle him up a bit, too. There's no way he knows he's been acting like that this whole time, he would have lit his butt on fire by now.

[oursavinggrace]

[with the uncertain way his mouth twists at that, you can almost tell jason's been hanging out with luke too much. he doesn't have nearly as much trust in the gods these days.]

I don't know about that. The gods on the Roman side are a lot less hands-on than their Greek counterparts.

[truesight]

I don't think Apollo has a Roman counterpart. At least, not one that I've seen. I think? Then again, he went all hush-hush the same time the rest of the gods did, even though he was still sending me visions all the time.

Either way, I'm pretty sure my Apollo would be more than willing to give that little- [ a few choice greek words- ] augur a stern taking-to. Out of the goodness of his heart.