Percy was still reeling as he slumped onto a bench in the Whitestone town square. There had been so little time to process everything before they’d been teleported out of the palace and then Keyleth was urging them forward through the tree at their keep, and then they were telling Cassandra and Yennen what happened and coming up with plans of action, and Allura and Kima were trying to contact someone, and Gilmore was on bedrest, and Keyleth was trying to talk to the Sun Tree for some reason, and—well.
There was nothing to do for the moment but to recuperate and plan. He hated the stillness.
He could barely remember the conversation he’d had with Cass an hour ago, when they’d arrived in the city looking distinctly bedraggled, but he was certainly proud of her. She was really keeping things running smoothly, even in the midst of their chaos, and if what he’d been told about the new Chamber of Whitestone was true, she was already making changes for the better.
A gentle breeze passed, and a little gold-green leaf broke off the Sun Tree and fluttered in the air. Percy wasn’t usually much for admiring nature, but such a little thing that meant so much for his city—he felt strangely calmed, for the moment.
It takes a few moments, but Tiberius activates the circle in a flash of light and all of a sudden they’re simply… somewhere else. Part of him’s delighted by the easy, instantaneous travel, but another part of him is just… worried. If this is a secret teleportation sigil in a secret chamber to a presumably secret place-
Well. Percy knows he’d put some kind of an alarm or alert on the place, in case someone else managed to use it. Maybe he’s paranoid but secrecy alone is never any guarantee, and better to be safe than sorry. He and Cass know that far better than most should ever have to.
Underrated campaign 1 moment was when we learnt that Cassandra volunteered her brother’s desk chair and convinced Allura to throw it into the Spinny Orb Of Death while VM was away doing chroma conclave shit. this was not the first thing they threw in. they knew full well what would happen to it. I fully believe Cassandra just woke up one day and decided to be a little shit about it and went n slapped a “free realstate” sign all over her brother’s stuff
[Image Description: a three panel comic of the above scenario.
allura: rocks, clothes, chairs… we’ve thrown everything we have at it… what next? cassandra walks in holding one of percy’s guns: hey allura. what about this? i don’t think percy needs it anymore.. End Description]
Can we just talk about his face here for a second? Like, Percy was going to get revenge at any cost to himself or others, he was ready to die for this and in a second, that’s all on the back burner because -holy shit- he has a sister?!?! Just a few things that I imagine are going through his head:
Why am only I learning this now
What the actual fuck Cass
What the actual fuck am I doing, that was ridiculously reckless and stupid because there is someone left worth living for and I am now obligated to try to survive all this bullshit
Cass has been left alone with these monsters for how long because I left her to die while we were escaping and never looked back. That’s all my fault
If we both get through this alive, I will owe her so fucking much
I have a sister
To paraphrase what Taliesin said on the Q&A: his face says it all. And I just- *chef’s kiss* I love it
