Not-So-Triumphant Return (Action)

[againstallodds]

[Most people (newbies excepted) would probably recognize the teenager that walks straight out of the ocean on the afternoon of the 19th, just as casually as if he were walking down the street in Anytown USA. If the fact that he's choosing to swim fully-clothed in October in New York doesn't give away who he is, the fact that he isn't soaking wet probably does.]

[He needs to meet with Chiron, but the first place Percy goes is actually the Poseidon cabin, closer to the ocean and his home-away-from-home, so he can drop off the small pack he's carrying - but less than ten seconds after he walks through the door, he tears back out it again and back down to the ocean.]

When were you gonna tell me I had a sister?!

[Yup, he's totally screaming at the ocean. This would have been nice to know, okay Dad?]

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[againstallodds]

[Not necessarily, but there's enough accents around the place that it also isn't surprising.]

Yeah, obviously. [Since Poseidon very well could have told him. And of course just didn't. Still, this isn't as alarming as the last time this happened.] He usually tells me stuff, though.

[willyouwalk]

He's a god. How old are you now?

[againstallodds]

Seventeen. [With a fairly casual shrug.]

[willyouwalk]

And you really think the gods are going to tell you everything? Really?

[againstallodds]

He's usually better about it than this. [Percy, you have an uncommonly good relationship with your godly parent. Stop being a little snot.]

[And he finally looks around for the voice, spotting a body up in a tree and squinting at it a little in the light.] You know you can come down from there now if you want.

[willyouwalk]

I was wondering if you'd notice. You Greeks aren't too terribly bright.

[Tybalt jumps down, brushing his shirt off as he heads towards Percy]

You're Annie's brother, then?

[againstallodds]

Hey, I knew you were there. You get used to voices out of trees at camp. [With all the satyrs and dryads around? He's actually telling the complete truth. Sometimes the voices come literally out of trees at that.]

Guess you could say that. Only sibling I had before this is a cyclops general. Who're you?

[willyouwalk]

Tybalt, one of the magicians.

[He doesn't ask who this guy is]

If you're Annie's brother, you should probably keep Gabriel Miller away from her.

[againstallodds]

[Is he that notorious? The answer is yes, Percy. But he'd introduce himself - except for that last comment, which his eyes narrow a bit at. So they have another Gabe, now? Although Percy wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that Greek!Gabe was doing something similar, tbh.]

Who's this guy? And what's he doing?

[willyouwalk]

[More like Tybalt doesn't care]

I met your sister last month while she was wandering around, in her swimsuit, in the cold. Apparently, Gabe Miller did something that...I don't know, triggered PTSD in Annie. She's not exactly...healthy, if you know what I mean.

[He won't use the word "crazy". Ainmire was crazy. The people who sided with Apophis were crazy. Annie was just a little damaged]

Whatever he did left her more or less a wreck for a day or two.

[againstallodds]

[You are such a cat.]

You don't have any clue what he did? [Probably not, but he's just making sure. How about a more relevant question.] What's he look like? Is he a magician like you?

[willyouwalk]

He made her see a goat and blood and gods know what else, no he's not a magician, and I haven't run into him but apparently people are saying he looks a bit like that French boy in the Apollo cabin and Mike, the boy who's the Norse god Tyr.

[againstallodds]

He looks like Enj? [Well that sucks. Enj is a good guy, he can't like having his face stolen by someone that sounds like a walking nutwaffle. He'll take exactly one second to think it over, then nod.] Okay. I'll stick by her - if he tries anything else, he's gonna eat my sword.