House of Hades Spoilers To Be Expected....

[keeperfromtheflame]

You're thinking too much about it, mun.  I'm trying not to.

Besides, that's supposed to be Annabeth's job.

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[iguanasolution]

Let me guess, she's sure something horrible will happen.

[keeperfromtheflame]

[At that notion, Hazel surprisingly waves a dismissive hand in the air, as if she were so used to the idea by now it barely even phased her.]

When does something horrible not happen to us? You'd think I was cursed.

[She tried to smile at her own weak joke, but it didn't quite reach her ears.]

[...though it did widen a little further when she glanced up at a certain Title of his.]

Nice name change. Very...direct.

[iguanasolution]

[He's about to ask more about what she said if she didn't mean the mundane was thinking about something bad happening to them (isn't that what mundanes do? Is his mundane that special?) but then the comment about his name makes him blush and make a slight face.]

Thanks for not laughing. I'm not even from that point of the books yet, I don't know what got into her...

[keeperfromtheflame]

Why would I laugh?

[And then, when he mentions he hadn't come from that point yet, she can't help grinning a bit.]

Does this mean I shouldn't spoil the surprise?

[Not the promotion part, of course. The other surprise.]

[iguanasolution]

[He shrugs as he shakes his head no.] I know something... happens to me, that something changes me.

And I know- well. [He points to the username with a little grimace because really? Really?] But that's all I know. She's wondering if I should know while on the turtle but she'd also rather I go through it?

[keeperfromtheflame]

[And here is where she comes to sit beside him. Just as they would do back in Camp Jupiter, whenever they talked about things.]

Well...that depends.

Are you okay with knowing you change at all?

[iguanasolution]

[He reaches for her hand, entwining their fingers together. She's always been his strength, and that hasn't changed on his time on the turtle.]

It'd be silly to think I don't change, everyone changes. I guess it's a matter of how much I change? And if it's good change, or bad change?

[keeperfromtheflame]

[The heat rises to her cheeks, and not just from the feeling of his hand in hers.]

It...was a good change. A very good change.