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[have_your_lives]

[Well, someone's just found out that Crawford has gone home. Given that he's been a little unstable ever since he was hit by the time bazooka, he's taking this even more wonderfully than he would normally.]

[Unfiltered, because Schuldig is all out of fucks to give]

He's gone. [This cryptic announcement is followed by the least sane laughter you'

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[olympicswimmer]

Hi, I'd like to order a pizza.

[have_your_lives]

Think that's cute, do you?

[olympicswimmer]

Hey, you were crazy over the phone first.

[have_your_lives]

[There's a brief pause, and then a laugh. Still so far off the deep end that you can't even see light, but there's genuine amusement in it.] Not bad.

[olympicswimmer]

What can I say? New York taught me to deal with loonies.

[have_your_lives]

And an American, too. That explains a lot.

But I doubt New York had anything of my caliber.

[olympicswimmer]

[ I actually laughed. In the last year, my city had seen Titans, drakons, and giant flying killer pigs -- on top of the normal host of monsters and the Olympians hanging out at the top of the Empire State Building. If New York lacked anyone of "his caliber," it was because the demon cheerleaders had eaten the phone pranking crazies for breakfast years ago. ]

I'm sure there's a few in the sewers.

[have_your_lives]

[There's a brief silence while Schuldig processes the information Percy is unwittingly feeding him.] Apples and oranges, kid. You don't need to be mythological to be new and dangerous.

[olympicswimmer]

Well you're just all kinds of creepy.

[have_your_lives]

Exactly.

[olympicswimmer]

[ I don't always make the smartest choices, but as I hung up the phone, I was pretty sure I was doing the right thing. ]

[have_your_lives]

[Schuldig doesn't need the phones to talk, however, and as Percy hangs up, he'll hear a mocking voice in his head.] Smart boy.

[olympicswimmer]

[ My heart jumped in my chest. For a second, I was twelve years old, sleeping in the woods off a New Jersey highway with a voice from Tartarus ringing in my ears.

But Kronos didn't have two magical neurons to rub together anymore, and now I was dealing with a guy who was a) possibly a batty clone of Professor X but b) had nothing better to do than play telephone like a thirteen year old girl. I closed my eyes and thought of the bottom of the ocean. ]

[have_your_lives]

[Fortunately, that seems to have simply been Schuldig getting the last word in; there's no further mental contact.]