I always put myself in destructive situations [W5, Friday]

[hydrokinetics]

[It took time. Everything took time as it always did. It took time for them to all calm down, it took time to heal physical wounds, it took time to properly remove the evidence of obscene crimes...but in the evening they were able to gather in one place away from everyone else. It hadn't been easy coordinating everything, but it was necessary.

And so here they were. All seven of them.]

...I don't really know where to start. [His voice is tight, but determined.] But we need everybody on the same page. Who wants to go first?

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[insincerely]

Well, in the case of last week... I'd only heard about the letters at all from Percy pretty much immediately before I got her to read them for me.

It might sound plausible if I said that I just fetched the letters on my own time—now that I know about them—in which case it might not seem weird if someone else read them to me. Assuming she even asks, anyway.

[hydrokinetics]

I think it might be a good idea to implement a don't ask don't tell policy. If she doesn't ask, there's no reason to bring it up.

And anyway...the letters are showing up in our mailboxes. Who says we can't send letters that way? I haven't tried it, but why else would there be mailboxes for everyone?

[insincerely]

I don't plan on bringing it up. Though in that case, I'd appreciate someone here reading the letters to me. [He's going to regret this so much once he realizes what Higekiri wrote.] If she does ask and we think she'll get suspicious that I'm relying on others beside her, I'll just say no one else has yet and ask her to.

... It's worth a shot.

[hydrokinetics]

I have a feeling Annabeth's going to keep yelling at me, so I'll have to check my mail anyway. We can go together and I can read them over if you want.

If she asks...that's the best course of action. For her own good, too. If we're sitting here theorizing about letters, we don't know if she's doing the same, too. [A pause.] She knows about Annabeth's first letter to me. Not this one though.

[insincerely]

[no percy's one of the last people who should be reading higekiri's letter after he LAUGHED AT SHINNOSUKE but shinnosuke is blissfully unaware—]

Sure. On Saturday or Sunday, maybe?

[Assuming things don't go to hell.]

[hydrokinetics]

If we're both alive after the trial, we can go then, sure. It's on the way back anyway.