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LUKE'S EYES NARROW. He isn't smiling—this is cold calculation. Nothing more.

The thing is—he is exhausted. Kronos plagues him with night terrors. During meals in the Dining Pavilion, Luke offers portions of his meal to the gods; he wonders if the gods smell the spite inherent to him and his obligatory sacrifice. He picks at his food and he laughs half-heartedly when younger campers say something that's supposed to be funny.

So he hasn't slept, and he hasn't eaten much. Also, Adam is, unlike the majority of campers, Luke's size. Luke shouldn't always win, but he needs to. Taking this so much more seriously than anyone else—than Adam—is an advantage (for now) because it has to be.

"What are you talking about?" They call it what?

The training swords lack the reassuring weight of celestial bronze—or even Annabeth's dagger. Without warning, Luke propels himself forward, sword raised.

Watch out, Adam!

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@topshelfperverts // poseidon said: "i suppose you must feel very pleased with yourself."

LIKE HE ISN'T ABOUT TO SHIT HIS PANTS:

"This is what you want, too. You just haven't figured it out yet."

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@theirmadness // poseidon said: come closer. there's no need to be afraid of me.

HE STEPS FURTHER ONTO SHORE—NOTABLY, AWAY FROM THE WATERLINE.

"I'm not afraid, old man."

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@topshelfperverts // percy said: bitch

"Pervert."

He laughs, somehow.

"Pervert asshole."

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@theirmadness // thalia said: i don't even know who the hell you are right now.

"You were gone for a long time, Thalia."

It feels like he's coaxing a wild animal. It feels like she hasn't changing at all. There's something beautiful about that—her being frozen in time, untarnished by the gods' influence for four entire years.

There's also a self-consciousness that comes with it. Does he look different? Older? Stronger? Does she miss the beanie? Does she miss helping him wash his curly hair?

"But what he did to you—he can't get away with it, and you know that."

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@topshelfperverts // tyson said: "i've never had to worry about too many people liking me."

YEAH, HE'S SURE.

He knows what his recruits say about Tyson and his kind. Calling him Percy's pet cyclops is accurate—no—no—wait—fuck—is completely antithetical to the rhetoric Luke's been espousing to recruit Poseidon's children to the Titan Lord's cause. He needs to get a lid on all of that. Tyson's a reminder of that priority by virtue of his existence.

"You don't need to be liked. But if you were feared—"

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@topshelfperverts // grover asked: "happy: such a funny little word, isn't it?"

"Is it, Grover?" Or are you just simpleminded?