The 37th Song

[tangledintower]

...Uh...

I'd like to forget that this weekend ever happened, if that's okay. What was I wearing...?

...I'm going to be hiding for the rest of time now, excuse me.

[PRIVATE TO EUGENE FLYNN//UNHACKABLE]

Eugene...um, Eugene, I was wondering if we could maybe talk?

I...wasn't very nice to you this weekend, and I want to apologize, but I want to do it in person, if that's okay...

Do you think you could come over? I have something I'd like to give you, too.

Comments

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

Oh! Well, thank you!

[heliolatrous.livejournal.com]

Why can't you tell people?

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

Mother said that when I was a baby, people tried to take my hair for themselves...they cut it, which is why I've got that little brown bit.

A gift like this needs to be protected, and the world is filled with people who would try to take advantage of it...so I've never told anybody, and this was why Mother never let me leave the tower...

But I don't think she's right. People here aren't bad, and I feel like I've got to make my own decisions about who to trust with the knowledge of my hair.

[heliolatrous.livejournal.com]

Oh? Have you regretted that yet?

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

Not yet, no...I'm not telling everybody I know about it. But I feel like not telling people I like about it is like lying...

And I've got a gift. I'm going to use it to help people. I've started volunteering down at the hospital.

[heliolatrous.livejournal.com]

What if you use all your magic up?

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I can use it up or not. I mean, the only people I've ever used it on are Mother, Flynn, and Neil. And I've only used it on Flynn and Neil once.

[heliolatrous.livejournal.com]

You should find out, right?

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

I don't really know how to find out, though...to be honest, I don't really know why my hair is like this.

[heliolatrous.livejournal.com]

You should know these things!

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

I know I should! I just...I've spent most of my life in a tower, and I'm finally out, and I don't know where to look to figure these things out, how how to look or anything...

[heliolatrous.livejournal.com]

Why didn't you find it out by asking your mother?

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

I did, but she didn't tell me anything.

Actually, she got sort of mad when I asked.

[heliolatrous.livejournal.com]

That's just weird.

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

Mother gets mad a lot. I think that's just how she is.

[heliolatrous.livejournal.com]

Huh...I didn't know there were people that were always angry.

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

She's not ALWAYS angry...she just doesn't like silly questions and mumbling.

[heliolatrous.livejournal.com]

Then ask her without mumbling.

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

If she ever gets here, I will.

[heliolatrous.livejournal.com]

Do you think the gods would actually want her?

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

The deities? I don't know, but there's probably a good reason she's not here yet.

[heliolatrous.livejournal.com]

...maybe they already don't like her.

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

I don't know why they wouldn't, they don't know her...

[heliolatrous.livejournal.com]

Because they bring people they already watched, right? They see everything.

And it's probably why they didn't bring Poseidon here.

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

That's probably how it is...

Poseidon? The ancient Greek god of the sea?