Trick or Treat

[fuckyou_chorus]

[Today, the mess hall has sprouted a porch -- all the better for trick-or-treaters -- and on this porch sits some statues. There is a fourth gargoyle as well, holding a candy-filled bowl in its outstretched hands]

(Taking a piece of candy could land you with a Trick-- either loss of sight, speech, or hearing -- or it may be a perfectly harmless

Comments

[watchmycannon]

Being as we are still in Camp, I would forward that whatever it looks like is rather immaterial.

[pieta_au_lait]

[drops the candy when she sees him]

Oh, David--!

[watchmycannon]

[Sort of startled by the intensity of the response]

...Miss Robin.

[pieta_au_lait]

[approaches him quickly]

I'm so sorry I didn't come find you sooner.

[watchmycannon]

[Blinks, still surprised, and takes half a step back]

Sooner than what?

[pieta_au_lait]

I needed a bit of time to recover from what happened.

[watchmycannon]

Which was...what?

[pieta_au_lait]

I... died. I released Gae Bolg.

[watchmycannon]

...What.

[pieta_au_lait]

[reaches into her purse for the amulet and presents it]

My friends and family... some of them didn't think it was right to return it to you. But he's yours. So... here.

[watchmycannon]

[Makes a cranky face, at that]

It is mine, yes.

[takes it]

...Thank you.

[pieta_au_lait]

[nods]

Please take care of him.

[watchmycannon]

Hm.

[stares at the tablet for a moment, then holds it aloft. There's a moment of stillness before the tablet shatters, fragments melting into glyphs and symbols and they circle David, glowing softly. They form slowly into an eyepatch, situated over his face, that slowly melts into his head]

[pieta_au_lait]

[watches, smiling gently when the eyepatch disappears]

... I guess that means he's home, now.

[watchmycannon]

Yes, I suppose so.

[chews on his lip for a moment]

I hope... the process was not too uncomfortable for you.

[pieta_au_lait]

... a lot of things went wrong. But I'm alright now, and I'll get better.