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𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐄, her guidance wove a thread of life, pulling him from the abyss where destiny had cast him.
❝ who are you to think you can walk a...
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𝐈 𝐂𝐀𝐍'𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐌𝐄 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋 thanK you aIMee ( taylor swift )
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I COULDN'T EXPLAIN HOW I KNEW. it was probably a 'child of the titan whose river you have to cross to become dead' talent, but who knows.
spirits were often restless. they would lose their way to the land of the dead, or stay behind with the living out of sheer stubbornness. sometimes they didn't even realize they were dead.
i had a gut sense they were still present, simply because no one had told them to leave the ship. yes, i had extinguished them back in kansas, but nothing had been done about the ones on the ship.
when i was done explaining, the others looked at me uncomfortably. i understood why: ghosts and phantoms made other people uneasy.
finally hazel exhaled. "camille is right."
"how can you be sure?" annabeth asked.
"i've met eidolons," hazel said. "in the underworld, when i was... you know."
dead.
in her own way, hazel too was a ghost reborn.
"so..." frank rubbed his hand across his buzz-cut hair as if some ghosts might have invaded his scalp. "you think these things are lurking on the ship, or—"
"probably lurking inside some of us," i said. "we don't know."
jason clenched his fist. "if that's true—"
"we have to take steps," i said. "i think i can do this."
"do what?" percy asked.
"just listen, okay?" i took a deep breath. "everybody listen."
i met their eyes, one person at a time.
"eidolons," i said, using as much command in my voice as possible, "raise your hands."
there was tense silence.
leo laughed nervously. "did you really think that was going to—?"
his voice died. his face went slack. he raised his hand.
jason and percy did the same. their eyes had turned glassy and gold. whatever spirit i had extinguished back in kansas, i clearly didn't get its entire being. i had been tricked into thinking i had removed the spirits from jason's and percy's bodies, but i clearly hadn't.
hazel caught her breath. next to leo, frank scrambled out of his chair and put his back against the wall.
"oh, gods." annabeth looked at me imploringly. "can you cure them?"
