[ she appreciates the easy way everyone seems to just roll with it, smiling pleasantly as annabeth offers the doll for closer inspection. river takes it into both hands and examines it from every angle, even rifling through its clothes and then finally searching the opening at the back where there's meant to be a "blessing" tucked inside.
instead of candy, there's another piece of paper with that faintly familiar scribble of the word return, virtually identical to the one they'd seen at the school earlier today. river takes the paper and doesn't look away from it as she offers the doll back to annabeth. ]
They've got magic feet but I don't know about crawling. We could find an area to case, be on the lookout for anything that moves while we search the nooks and crannies.
[ finally, she lowers the note and beams a little at percy in particular. ]
Like hide and seek with some buddies.
[ except they aren't the ones doing the hiding and they're virtual strangers to each other. river has seen the two of them around the castle and this is the first time they've spoken, but she easily accepts the idea of 'huh i guess we're friends now.' ]
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instead of candy, there's another piece of paper with that faintly familiar scribble of the word return, virtually identical to the one they'd seen at the school earlier today. river takes the paper and doesn't look away from it as she offers the doll back to annabeth. ]
They've got magic feet but I don't know about crawling. We could find an area to case, be on the lookout for anything that moves while we search the nooks and crannies.
[ finally, she lowers the note and beams a little at percy in particular. ]
Like hide and seek with some buddies.
[ except they aren't the ones doing the hiding and they're virtual strangers to each other. river has seen the two of them around the castle and this is the first time they've spoken, but she easily accepts the idea of 'huh i guess we're friends now.' ]