holyspirits | Audience

[ HElP ]

I'm not doing anything on purpose—I'm just thinking?

About what? [ this is more of a prompt to talk if he wants rather than a demand to tell her. into the woods we go. ]

[ It takes another moment as they explore some more before he starts. ]

Things... Are okay between us?

[ oh. buddy. she actually looks a little confused with the question before she remembers men are stupid. ]

Of course they are. [ but she can take a shot in the dark what this is about. ] Is this about our conversation last week?

[ listen..... he feels guilty... even though it wasn't quite him, but it's still him. ]

It is... I was acting so erratically to you. I don't know why, but I still shouldn't have done that.

You were, but considering the situation you're all in I'm surprised more of you aren't acting erratically. And besides, they were only questions.

[ very fucked up questions, but questions nonetheless. ]

I don't mind questions so long as you don't mind I may not be able to always give answers you want.

... Right, but still. That was a lot, you have to admit.

[ Jacopo doesn't say it, but it seemed insane and some of it maybe manipulative. ]

Oh, it was. I'm not absolving you completely. [ she's not that nice, unfortunately. ] But I do think some of them are mildly understandable.

... are you willing to have a conversation now, or would you like to pretend you never asked those questions to begin with?

Okay, you're not, but you could have definitely told me to stop or taken a step back!

[ PLEASe. She's asking complicated questions a past self personality him has a hard time answering. ]

I just wanted to say sorry.

[ That's what it ends up being. ]

You're forgiven then. [ GOD. further into the woods they go... but. ]

I could and should have told you to take a step back, but I also don't know if that would have benefitted you, or if it would mean you asked yourself those questions and speculated on your own. Our job here is to guide you, remember?

It is, but I don't think it means you need to sink with us.

[ is it funny how self-loathing shows up in a different channel. into the woods. ]

... But thanks.

Don't thank me. [ there's a lull though as she thinks, folding her hands behind her back as she leads them onward. ]

I don't think I would allow either of us to sink. I'm a very strong swimmer. [ metaphors... ]

[ Jacopo is still grateful, but he doesn't add more. All he wanted her to know is that he's sorry. ]

If only swimming was helpful while we're in the woods...

[ she chooses not to harp on the point but instead distracts him. ]

Would you believe me if I said I spent the last year or so speaking to trees back home?

If you want me to believe that's a normal psychic thing, then sure. I believe you.

[ That is just what they do now. ]

[ she does laugh slightly at that because she's aware it sounds silly to other people. ]

No, it wasn't a normal psychic thing. I'm not a psychic. [ very much not a psychic. ] But it was at the heart of the ley line that ran through town. We found it one day while we were on a search for something else.

[ listen... psychic family... psychic things... on the side. ]

And they were trees... That you could talk to.

[ this is actually a fair question from him for a few reasons, it's just that zuriel herself is the only non-psychic in her whole family. ]

They spoke in Latin. [ normal things to say. ] Tir e e'lintes. Tree lights. Spirits that lived inside the trees. Sometimes they were a little difficult to understand, but the boys all studied Latin anyway.

It sounds kind of familiar.

[ jacopo that's because you're a displaced italian in france ]

And that's convenient they knew. What were you all looking for to begin with?

Does it? [ a little curious. ] It was and wasn't convenient because of how Cabeswater came to be, but that's Ronan's doing.

[ does not explain why. does not explain who ronan is. ]

We were searching for the tomb of a Welsh king. The boys has been searching for some time before I asked to come along.

A bit, but nothing really specific comes to mind. It just sounds familiar.

[ well..... if she doesn't explain, Jacopo just assumes it's not important enough to explain. He just whispers to himself "what does that any of that mean?" ]

Is...... There a reason why you all were doing that? Not that I'd be able to fathom, but I might as well ask.

[ their relationship really is built a lot on saying things the other person doesn't get and then not explaining isn't it. ]

Because Gansey believed Glendower had saved his life when he was young, and so made it his mission to find him. Obsessively searching and pouring hours, days, even months into following the smallest of leads. To find him... whoever found the sleeping king would be granted a favor. A wish, really.

[ that is the problem of significantly different time periods and also genres. sometimes it's just about listening.

it is interesting because it sounds like fiction. ]

... All right. I'd ask what he want if he finally meets his savior, but importantly did this pan out?

[ she knows. it sounds fictional to her, too, even though this happened to her. ]

... we did find Glendower, yes. But he'd been dead for so long that it wasn't what we were searching for.

[ you worked in retail ]

Sorry to your friend, then... But at least seeing him must have meant something?

[ He guesses. ]

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