When the moment is just right you see fire in their eyes [Week 1, Saturday post-trial]

[hydrokinetics]

[It's later in the evening when he and Annabeth come back from the lake with Mrs. O'Leary. They'd talked a lot, thought things through and caught up on comparing notes and he genuinely thought he would be okay. He thought it would be better to catch up with people, but then he thinks about two people who also struggled a lot with hard choices in this trial.

Noctis, who chose to interrogate Tiara when no one else wanted to. Harry, who questioned and defied the Sheriff wanting to protect everyone else.

He feels as though those two would be good to talk to, figure out what to do before this happened again. It's only when he's back to the hotel that he knocks on Noctis's door, briefly telling him to come upstairs when he's ready and meet him and Harry in their room. Heading to his room and letting Mrs. O'Leary in, he leaves the door open for Noctis to follow whenever he's ready and isn't at all surprised to find Harry there already.]

So...show of hands. Who thought this totally sucked?

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[hydrokinetics]

That sounds about right, at least until we can group them together and get them to look after each other under our watch. [Percy, for the most part, isn't a great strategist either, but he's managed to get the Greek army together to work toward one goal.] I've been talking to a lot of people since we got here for that reason. The real challenge is going to be making friends.

[And there's a slight smile, like he's not sure how well that'll go for Harry and Noctis.] If you're up for that, I mean.

[expelliarmed]

[ Harry might've had Dumbledore's Army back home, but he's only as good as his best men and women and - he doesn't have them now. He really has to decide to do what he thinks is best, without the advice of those he trusts.

Maybe there was a reason he'd woken up on the train just days after Dumbledore's death.

He exhales slowly through his nose, then nods. ]

I'm in. Anything we can do to keep someone else from being killed.

[elemancy]

Yeah, count me in too. Not like it's gonna do us much good to refuse.

[how successful they'll be is probably another story entirely—but it's worth an honest effort.]

[hydrokinetics]

Awesome. [He looks more relieved than he should, like he'd been worried that they would say no to something like this.] There's a handful of people we should keep an eye on, but also a handful of people we should protect. We can take a week to observe and start dividing them up amongst ourselves after that. Good plan?

[expelliarmed]

Good plan. In the meantime, just - be on your guard. Both of you.

[ A potential killer could be trying to do just as they were and profile them. Heroes always get targets painted on them. ]

[elemancy]

Yeah. Same to you—it's the only way we're gonna get through this.

[noct's been trying to play down his status for a reason; he's pretty used to trying to keep himself on the down-low these days..]

[hydrokinetics]

Right. We're all going to play this smart. [There's a small nod then.] We'll meet up again when we've figured some stuff out and made progress.