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[ he waves off her apology, but-- at the rest, there's a clear hesitation ]

Jason's... [ well. he shakes his head ] We're not from the same world, exactly. More like-- alternate universes, from what I've gathered. And Percy mentioned you guys were going back to his world... ah, never mind, I shouldn't have asked.

...If you want to say something, you can.

[She can't quite tell where he's going with that, or she would just go ahead and answer.]

[ he can't quite tell what he wants from that either ]

No, not really. I was just being nosy.

[After a second:]

Well - I guess, then. I don't know.

[is

is she blushing a little]

[

okay now he's really being nosy: ]

It kind of doesn't look that much like a guess to me.

What, are you calling me a liar?

[It's still sarcastic, but it sounds less typically biting and more flustered.]

No... I just think you might be understating it a little.

[ he's grinning a bit. this is hilarious to him because he's terrible ]

Why are you smiling, stop that.

Childhood habit. Infinitely hard to break, my face just does this now. [ :3? but he lets go ] So you guys were friends?

Yeah. Friends.

[There is so much emphasis on that word. She'll admit she has friends this one time if it makes him Stop (even though he probably will not).]