Like, I don't want this place to ever abduct my mom and I hope it never happens ...
[ Percy's momentarily distracted with his own thoughts, but at Annabeth's prompting he blinks at what she's implying and moves to help her peel the wrapper from her cupcake without hesitation, as though there's a whole other level of clockwork between them despite a billion other things swimming around in his mind.
The stickiness of slightly melted icing and sweet spongecake residue remains on his fingertips by the time he's finished pulling the wrapper from the cupcake to bundle it into a ball and toss it back into the box. He licks at his fingers. ]
... but I think about how she might like to see some of the libraries, or visit a place like Nocwich, or see how different the ocean is here. And she could learn how to bake from a top royal chef, and have a whole study room to write her book.
[ He knows she's in a way better place now than ever, and again, he'd never wish for her to be trapped here because while the list above is awesome, the rest of it kinda sucks — but he also hasn't seen her in what feels like years even if it's realistically only months and it's so, so stupid to miss your mom as if he were a six year old kid, but he does. He really, really misses his mom.
It doesn't help that he had Claire and Wanda for eight hundred years and now he doesn't even have that anymore. ]
sorry i immediately ruined this and made it sad
[ Percy's momentarily distracted with his own thoughts, but at Annabeth's prompting he blinks at what she's implying and moves to help her peel the wrapper from her cupcake without hesitation, as though there's a whole other level of clockwork between them despite a billion other things swimming around in his mind.
The stickiness of slightly melted icing and sweet spongecake residue remains on his fingertips by the time he's finished pulling the wrapper from the cupcake to bundle it into a ball and toss it back into the box. He licks at his fingers. ]
... but I think about how she might like to see some of the libraries, or visit a place like Nocwich, or see how different the ocean is here. And she could learn how to bake from a top royal chef, and have a whole study room to write her book.
[ He knows she's in a way better place now than ever, and again, he'd never wish for her to be trapped here because while the list above is awesome, the rest of it kinda sucks — but he also hasn't seen her in what feels like years even if it's realistically only months and it's so, so stupid to miss your mom as if he were a six year old kid, but he does. He really, really misses his mom.
It doesn't help that he had Claire and Wanda for eight hundred years and now he doesn't even have that anymore. ]