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Persephone, the Destroyer ([personal profile] pummelgranite) wrote2019-09-03 02:08 am
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"Persephone. Speak."
fehus: ✺ starboard. (splintered pine narrow and fine.)

[personal profile] fehus 2017-08-29 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[the short response -- is a better response than he usually gets, really. he doesn't want pity or sympathy. he just wants to be himself]

It's usually a bunch of trouble, but it's not so bad.

[and he falls into quiet when she does, grey eyes scanning wide at the path around them, sometimes lit, sometimes pitch dark. Magnus is Dead, but he is not a death demigod (he's a life demigod, if we're getting technical), and the more turns they make, the less he understands his surroundings, the more his pulse starts to spike]

[he starts to ramble, because that's how Magnus Chase rolls, when he's feeling nervous]


Um. I did know, already. About other pantheons. It sort of even runs in my extended surviving family. My cousin's a daughter of Athena, from uh, your side of the spiritual universe. She'd probably have told me not to follow goddesses into the dark or drink underage, because she's smarter than me. But you seem okay. Better than the goddess running the show where I come from.

[Magnus isn't walking like he owns the place, stumbles over something in the dark, hisses as he cuts his knee on an edge of -- a door hinge, with no door? great -- and suddenly, he's lighting up a bit, gold and subtle at the edges. he's healing, if she can sense that, in a small way. his blond hair stays lit longer than the rest of him]

I'm glad I can't get tetanus. Um, are we nearly there?
Edited 2017-08-29 03:32 (UTC)
fehus: ✺ starboard. (fingers curl around a gnawing hope.)

[personal profile] fehus 2017-08-29 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
[a mumble to himself;]

Minerva -- ?

[Magnus hurries to keep up, embarrassed at his fumble in the dark, and is relieved to see light ahead. he thinks they're wires, electric, until they get close and that thought couldn't be further from the truth. they're vines, illuminated and living and gorgeous]

[and it comes without thought, clearly his genuine reaction, rather than something careful or even nervous;]


Wow -- it's so beautiful, down here. They're amazing.

[he reaches to touch, stops, because even if he's not as smart as Annabeth, he's not stupid. he doesn't know mythology that well (hilariously ironic), but he does remember something about Persephone and plants, and the bad mix that happened there]
fehus: ✺ starboard. (that light is finders keepers.)

[personal profile] fehus 2017-08-29 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Magnus almost feels like saying, who?, because he's already forgotten they were talking about some goddess of wisdom, faced with another even more completely astonishing sight. even half-complete, it's one of the coolest things he's ever seen -- though he has no idea what it's for. definitely something to be seen, but not yet (which makes him wonder why he's gotten a backstage pass so far before the show)]

This is so cool... is this your -- [he doesn't know what word goes here. tries, thinking of some long-gone World Civ class] -- temple?
fehus: ✺ fehus. (a busy boy a scattered mind.)

[personal profile] fehus 2017-08-29 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, you really do think I'm a nerd. We drink mead, you know, in Valhalla.

[this is true, but -- he drinks the apple juice and water mostly. he preferred to have a clear head if he was going to lose his head, and the mead of the gods was maybe not the best for that]

[he's pretty sure Ike's Hard Lemon Tea is also a dig, so he goes with a slightly risky]


I'll have whatever you're having. When in -- Hades, and all that.

[he approaches the vine catwalks, slowly, just in case that's not cool. he wants to see them closer up]
fehus: ✺ starboard. (eye me up like a chunk of meat.)

MAGNUS CHASE AND THE DIVINE HANGOVER THANKS

[personal profile] fehus 2017-08-29 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[the blossoms turn, and Magnus looks positively charmed. it's a nice thought; flowers in Hades]

What's with this place? What happens here?

[Magnus accepts the drink, not seeming to mind that it's kind of cute. he takes a big, mead-quaffing sip -- and his grey eyes blast wide at the taste. he swallows with effort, trying not to cough, and mostly failing]

-- The, pomegranate, is so fresh. That's why I'm coughing. Wow.

[takes a smaller sip... this time...]
fehus: ✺ starboard. (side by side a thousand miles.)

he's a homeless drop out he never got the WARNING

[personal profile] fehus 2017-08-29 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Of Britney Spears?

[looking at those dope amps]
Edited 2017-08-29 23:24 (UTC)
fehus: ✺ starboard. (lose yourself over the bow.)

[personal profile] fehus 2017-08-29 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Do they perform for you...?
fehus: ✺ starboard. (splintered pine narrow and fine.)

[personal profile] fehus 2017-08-29 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[it finally clicks, and -- wait what no it doesn't?]

You perform, and they worship you?

[blinks]

What do you do, showcase really big rutabagas?
fehus: ✺ starboard. (find out we don't quite fit.)

[personal profile] fehus 2017-08-30 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[he cocks his head in surprise, but then thinks: yeah, sounds about right. Thor watches Breaking Bad. Heimdall loves taking selfies. Persephone can be a pop star]

[still, he defends his nerdiness]


I'm not being a nerd. I mean, it's not my pantheon, but I know if anybody's gonna grow a great rutabaga for the Greeks, it's you. [...] I will, though. Look you up. What's your music like?
fehus: ✺ starboard. (shut up this is love.)

[personal profile] fehus 2017-08-30 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
[that gets her a rather wry look, for some fronty kid trapped in Hades]

As someone with like, an enormous amount of dying experience, I think I'll have to test that one out.

[he takes a sip of his drink, doesn't cough this time. a victory]
fehus: ✺ fehus. (don't you tell me what to do.)

[personal profile] fehus 2017-08-30 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
So your worshipers are nerds?

[he pauses, realises what the word "communion" kind of implies, actually]

-- Wait, you're not trying to convert me, right?
fehus: ✺ starboard. (worms that crawl around in your skull.)

[personal profile] fehus 2017-08-30 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
I'm an atheist, actually.

[he's not joking.]

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