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uummi · 2 years ago

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Written for @dicktimweek 2023

Day 5: First Crush/Love | Dick learns Tim is his soulmate after Damian Gains Robin | BAMF Tim Drake

Words Count: 1649

Title: Black Dahlia

Pairing: Dick Grayson/Tim Drake

Warnings: Implied Character Death| Implied Reverse Robins AU| Implied Joker Junior AU

Dick was a naturally gifted master of performance

Perhaps the fact that he opened his eyes in a show where the led lamps illuminating the interior of the tent gave the feeling of the soft shadow of the moon and the noise of applause served as a lullaby was one of the reasons why he had this habit

Even when he was a baby bird that was too small to carry his parents in the sky with his own wings, he invited people to the show of their lives with his bright smile on his face, enjoyed the smell of excitement spreading around with pleasure

But every art had an inspiration, like that his father and mother had painted their canvas, before they met which was a blank piece of white brick, using the colors of the rainbow they had collected while floating

Dick, on the other hand, has his own in the blue eyes of an older boy he met by chance one day

A boy with a huge camera that looks big on tiny but obviously very painful calloused hands and a small but strong shining smile like a star

Timothy Drake...

It all started on a summer day when he turned 5 and it was going to be determined whether he would start accompanying his parents to their shows

That's why it wasn't a strange situation when everyone was running around with celebration supplies from a month ago, or talking about the childhood of the acrobat who made the sun jealous with their excited tones to each other

For Dick, on the other hand everything was a mess because he still hadn't figured out how to do his family's special move

Even if he felt his muscles crying with pain every day, he worked late into the night and even sometimes gave up sleeping and continued his training, nothing he did was working

He could see that his parents were looking at him with sadness so he was starting to get scared now

What if he fails and his parents start denying Dick's existence? What was he going to do then, he didn't have another family

He didn't want to be alone...

As a result, although he knew that everyone was waiting for him, he decamped through the caravans and started running towards the wooded area next to where the circus decided to stay

He had no strength left to endure this expectation any longer...

He also did not believe that anyone would try to find him, which is perhaps why the thin fingers touching his shoulder caused him to scream

Ice blue eyes that would melt with warmth nevertheless complement the body dressed in red clothes and looked at it with such sincerity that Dick believed for a moment that he was an extremely important person

'Why are you crying, are you hurt?'

He touched his hand to the point where his eyelids were, and when he felt the wetness, he made a surprised sound towards the air because he was not even aware that the tears had regained their freedom

The boy began to speak as if he had never removed the question he was asking from his thin lips while Dick was trying to wipe the wetness off his face, and the other was trying to ignore them after a caress with the hand he placed on his knee

Also Dick was having new thoughts about the beauty of the being in front of him every passing second

The more Timmy talked, I told you to call me Tim why are you already trying to find a nickname when I have one, Dick was starting to calm down a little more. Two of them even started bouncing stones in the lake opposite where they were sitting

At the end of about an hour, the younger boy began to explain what the situation that was bothering him was

In fact, he was just waiting for a conversation consisting of sentences indicating how upset they were or that such a thing would definitely not happen

It happened to everyone else like this

So the response he received in return was the last thing he expected

'Do you want me to teach you?'

In response to his incredulous looks, the teenager with straight black hair said that he really had a great teacher and that he was trying to learn all the movements that attracted his interest after his training with him

And even before his sentence was finished, he presented a perfect work of art

A special show for only certain people, like a bird flying at night

He was so lucky...

Timmy gave him tips to perfect the movement for a while, and Dick felt that after a long time he was really ready to fly

Dick wanted to give something on top of that, but what could it be?

For a few seconds, his eye was caught on the camera, which Tim did not let go of for a long time. With the idea that came to his mind, he tried to find a suitable angle by taking the machine left by the tree in his hand

When he got the position he wanted, he quickly sat Tim down and settled into his lap

'Smile Timmy!'

The young boy complied with the request and also joined their cheeks and planted a small kiss on Dick's one at a moment when he was sure that the machine had caught

After both sides got their photos in their hands, the sounds of footsteps began to approach before Dick had a chance to say anything else

'Timothy, if you're done, let's go now. Don't keep father waiting any longer'

After the sound heard from a grown man, Dick, who saw that the young boy had provided his head and slowly began to advance his body, shouted in alarm

He didn't want it to end, he didn't want to leave Timmy's side!

'Watch me before you go!'

Tim's eyebrows rose into the air with a pleasant curl, and although Dick knew even from this that his cheeks were starting to blush, he did not disturb his determined posture

Upon these words, he became possessed of that image that did not come out of his dreams. The normally air-stitched hair scattered by the summer breeze closed the ice-blue eyes for a moment, the hand that did not hold the camera threw a few tufts behind the ear, and an angelic smile that pinched the sides of his face decorated the pink lips

Ah... He didn't want him go because he had fallen in love

He forgot about the fingers touching the top of his head, the arm dragging him towards the tent or the other boy he saw just for a second who called Timmy, and he wasn't fully himself until he reached his parents' side or even presented the Grayson family's special move

If Tim is able to do the Quadruple Somersault, wouldn't that make him a Grayson?

He was awakened from his thoughts by the kiss that his mother placed on his cheeks and greeted them gently in response to the sounds of applause

'My little Robin... We always knew you would make us proud'

He could look into his mother's smiling eyes and feel that he was starting to laugh through his aching cheeks, or he could relive how full of confidence his father's peaceful embrace was

Turning his head, he turned to Tim, who was standing at the end of the tent door. The young boy was waiting like being the most beautiful being he had ever seen, and he was kind of sending his congratulations by raising his thumb to him

And then he was gone before Dick could talk to him again

So Dick squeezed the photo he put in his pocket with all his might

The one which Tim kissed him...

Would he ever see him again, he wonder

This question continued to haunt his brain until the death show of his family. Every year, he would examine the people inside the tent before going on stage and would give Tim his art along with every beautiful feeling from his heart

Now the top of his canvas was covered with blood, a storm had broken in the sky he was flying

He closed his eyes and tried to eliminate the pain, but he just didn't know what to do

And then Dick felt startled by the hand placed on his shoulder as he cried, knowing that his parents' broken wings would never heal again and that their bodies, captured by wild animals, would be buried in the ground

Nevertheless, he raised his head, ignoring the drops floating from the tears that filled the blues

Opposite him was a young man whose hair reached to his shoulders. Although the hood was tightly covered, the green wires decorating the ends could be noticed

But the really noticeable part was perhaps the scars that turned the sides of his mouth into a horror movie scene. It's like someone put a knife through the tip of his lip and went to the last point he could go

As if this situation would prevent Dick from recognizing him...

'Timmy?'

The blue-green eyes opened in surprise and the decayed hands buried in his hair paused for a few seconds

Then the head area moved towards the shoulder with a slight curve. As if he didn't know what he was talking about

Dick remembered a news story he had read in one of the newspapers called the Joker attack in Gotham and what happened as a result, and realized that the stones had fallen into place

So while he was even more upset that everyone he loved had to suffer, he cried once again for all of the childhood he had lost

He was cursed...

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deusluxuria · 1 year ago

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Random JJBA ending-credits animations I've come up with in my brain but I just have to write them instead because I cannot animate or even really draw lol

( Spoilers: Part 3 / Stardust Crusaders, Part 5 / Golden Wind, Part 6 / Stone Ocean, Part 7 / Steel Ball Run )

"Ghosts" by Siobhan Donaghy : Giorno trying to use Gold Experience to heal the Earth. Live-action or animated sequences of climate change disasters in reverse (i.e. the BP oil spill, wildfires, birds and fish dying during heatwaves, etc.), matching with how the vocals in the song are in reverse.

"Some Velvet Morning" by Primal Scream and Kate Moss : Doppio in his crappy apartment, doing some menial task like folding laundry or washing dishes, while dancing to the song. Not because he's happy, but because he's trying to be happy. It's hard to interpret what the lyrics mean, but I like to think it's about someone who feels very powerless in their situation and they're anticipating waking up one morning to everything suddenly being okay. During the song, there are imaginary colored lights in the room as if he's in a nightclub, somewhat obscuring how grungy and bleak his apartment is. But once the song ends, the lights suddenly disappear, and he sort of collapses on the couch with his head in his hands.

"I Know the End" by Phoebe Bridgers : The apocalyptic ending of Stone Ocean. It shows every Part 1 - 6 character's most cherished memories, before showing all of them sort of disintegrating into thin air and being replaced by a massive, silent, eerie void.

"Kim's Caravan" by Courtney Barnett : Once again, Giorno trying to reverse climate change with his Stand, despite how he's just one person and simply not powerful enough to do it by himself. At the end of the song, Giorno dies, having exerted too much energy in his attempt.

"Goumari" by D33pSoul and Habib Belk : The Stardust Crusaders group embracing Kakyoin (who never had any friends) as a dear friend of theirs. Mostly they're all in a nightclub in Egypt having fun. But during one of the slower parts of the song, Kakyoin is being lifted up on their shoulders.

"Deadwood" by Garbage : Mostly focusing on Doppio (who survived after Diavolo died). It took Diavolo's death for him to realize that Diavolo was abusive and was preventing him from being happy and having his own life with his dogmatic, controlling behavior. The main visual is a panning shot of many Golden Wind characters, who are lying down in a pink and gold river full of floating flowers, as if being purified from their trauma. There are flashes in between recalling the abuse that each character went through, and then of them escaping the abuser (or escaping a different bad situation).

"My First Lover" by Gillian Welch (content warning: abuse, drug use, graphic imagery -- in this paragraph of the post, not in the song) : A rather bleak sequence of Johnny and Gyro's lives before they met each other in the race. Both abused drugs and alcohol, slept around as a form of self-harm and thrill-seeking, accepted and didn't bother to leave abusive romantic partners. There are flashes of shaky camera shots showing bruises, vomit, blood, torn clothes, trembling hands, dangerous sleezy taverns, the open mouths of people screaming, the broken mirror that Johnny accidentally threw his dad into.

"New Skin" by Siouxsie and the Banshees : A more confident, assertive version of the same idea in the "Deadwood" one (Doppio breaking free from Diavolo). Definitely would be in live-action. There is a row of dancers in the background who are all wearing the same outfit and hair as Doppio, except they all have flesh-tone stocking material obscuring their faces. Doppio himself is in front at a microphone and rather jovially singing and moving to the song. There are flashes here and there of Diavolo being trapped in the death loop created by Gold Experience: Requiem. Towards the end of the song, the dancers slowly and aggressively rip off the material covering their faces. They are all completely different looking people, conveying that Doppio can actually embrace every part of his personality and identity rather than having an abuser simplify him to once face.

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explorercaravan · 2 days ago

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focusrvgroupaus · 3 months ago

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justautouk · 7 months ago

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lindsaystravelblogs4 · 1 year ago

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March 8-12 More of Port MacDonnell

8 March

It was another very hot day so we stayed around the van all morning. We had some washing and a few other jobs to do but we tried to stay inside out of the heat as much as we could for most of the day.

It cooled down a little later in the afternoon and the wind was not as fierce, so we had a delightful walk on the beach, starting from the caravan. We walked east for about two kilometres and it was quite fascinating. I saw quite a lot of birds, particularly at some partly-submerged rocks where we turned back, but the seaweed on the beach was incredible. A lot of the beach was covered in weed because the high tides seem to encroach close to the dunes at present, and the colour and variety was simply amazing. A lot of the weed was brown – kelp-like colours, but still with lots of variation, but there were also lots of smaller patches of colour from a range of weed – bright greens, yellows, orange, reds, pinks, black – and a few white shells amongst it all. We chose a completely arbitrary square metre of beach and counted at least ten species of weed, plus sponges and a few shells. (We also found a hermit crab that was happy to watch us and wave his legs at us when I picked him up, but he retreated back into his shell as soon as the camera came out.) Given that there were at least another 20- or 25-thousand square metres of beach that we could have selected, I reckon there must have been hundreds of species of seaweed for us to explore. We brought back some sea lettuce to put with our veges for dinner, but we really couldn’t taste it much at all.

9 March

We drove back to Mount Gambier to do some supermarket shopping after breakfast. It was a fiercely hot day with howling winds to make things even worse (the wind seems to be almost constant at Port MacDonnell) but we did what we needed to do and topped up with fuel, including a couple of small jerrycans at a fully automatic station. We have used these automatic bowsers plenty of times before, but this one was very different from the usual routine, and it needed the collective intuition, intelligence and guesswork of several other impatient people before we all figured out the system.

An interesting thing happened while Heather was in one of the shops. A car and caravan pulled up near where I was parked and the woman who got out seemed a bit lost, telling her husband to drive a little bit forward, then back, then forward, trying to ensure cars could exit the carpark but so they were not taking up too much of the kerbside parking. I tried to assure her and then noticed that they seemed to be driving our car. Their van was nothing like ours, but the car was the exact same model and colour as ours (but a few years younger) with the same configuration of two spare wheels on the back (the only similar 200-series car I have ever seen like that). The bull-bar was identical, as were the roof bars - down to the two orange bog-mats tied down over the driver with orange tie-downs. They had the same built-in back section and even identical reversing cameras. Chatting with the driver, they have also done every other modification, upgrade and addition to their car that we have done on ours. Even the number plate had most of the same characters in it (but in different order). It was almost creepy. And an hour later, we passed them again on the other side of town as we were pulling into the fuel stop. Six degrees of separation? Maybe two or three at most.

On the way back to Port MacDonnell via a more scenic route, we came across Little Blue Lake (as opposed to Blue Lake in Mount Gambier). It was another sinkhole but open to the public and there were at least a hundred people there. The carpark was very crowded and lots of people were swimming. Many of them were also jumping off the lip of the sinkhole into the lake below – about twenty metres at a guess. It was not our thing at all, but we took a few photos and left before the many lightly-clad bathers and onlookers shocked us beyond recovery.

We drove along the coast near Port MacDonnell and visited most of the places we had missed on our earlier coastal jaunt a few days ago. In view of the 40-degree temperature, we did most of our sightseeing from the comfort of the car, even taking most of our few photos through the windscreen, rather than braving the ferocity of the elements outside. The road only went about ten kilometres or so, with a few short tracks down to small parking areas and walking tracks to the beach – we checked out the views from all the parking areas but never went down to the beach.

We debated going to the pub for lunch but eventually settled on the caravan – getting a parking spot may have been a challenge too far. We enjoyed the cool of our air conditioner all afternoon.

10 March

We had two (maybe three) longish walks today – depending on whether you count two walks in one area as one or two walks. We started with a visit to the Germein Conservation Reserve, just a few kilometres out of town. There were a number of walks there and we started with a loop walk through a bush area. There weren’t many birds, but the trees were quite varied and interesting. Some of them were Yellow Gums (Eucalyptus leucoxylon megalocarpa), a subspecies apparently not found in many other areas. They are quite amazing. They are really big trees with branches that twist and turn in incredible directions. The forest was quite dense overall, and they looked to me to be trying to find their way through, or simply explore, their environment, with their branches winding in and out and through and around the rest of the nearby bush.

We then drove to another part of the Reserve, Clarke’s Park, the starting point for a few other walks. We decided to do the short Frog Pond walk but must have walked about a kilometre before we even found it. Then we were side-tracked to a reed-clogged lagoon and via a circuitous route back to where the Frog Pond walk started. We had originally intended to do the Boardwalk walk, but by then, we had had enough, and it was way past time for lunch anyway. The signage all around the Reserve was very poor, and much of the internal route signs have been removed from their posts, making it very hard to know where you were at any time and which way you needed to walk to get to your intended destination. We reported this at the Tourist Information Centre a few days later and they promised to try to have the problem remedied.

We had a drink at the pub on the way back through town. It was wonderfully cool in there but we eventually went back to the van for an hour or two before taking another long walk on the beach. It wasn’t as good as our previous meanderings, with cars, people and unrestrained dogs everywhere along the beach. We walked a kilometre or so and then headed back to the van for some great seafood and to watch Episode 1 of a new series (Hinterland) on DVD.

11 March

We spent almost all day in the van today. It was another sweltering, blustery day so we didn’t want to go out more than necessary. Despite this, we spent a bit more time out in it that we intended. There were a few jobs that we needed to do to around the car and van, as well as a bit more washing, all of which had to be done outside in the heat. And with the wind blowing a gale, I spent almost as much time retrieving things that blew away as I did actually doing the work.

I wrote quite a bit for this blog, but we have virtually no internet here so I am not sure when I might be able to post it. There is very little data access here and I can’t even connect my PC to the internet via the hotspot on my phone. I can occasionally connect via Heather’s hotspot but emails literally take minutes to download or send, and accessing a website might take ten minutes or more before I get a message that I have been timed out. There is effectively no data access and we have been told that the only good access is from inside the public library. In this day and age…….? It is very frustrating!

We had been cooped up in the van, hiding from the heat all day, so as it started to cool a little around dusk, we went for a short drive – just along the beach area and out along the rock groin as far as we could go. It was lovely and cool in the car, and we saw quite a few birds, particularly along the groin. Then it was back to the van for another excellent meal.

12 March

I ‘lost’ my glasses yesterday and we spent (literally) hours looking for them. We turned the car and van inside out (not literally, but almost) looking for them, all to no avail. I remembered that I had them as we went out for our drive last night so I was sure they were either in the van or the car but we couldn’t find them. We both went through both my bags and every drawer and cupboard, even searching the fridge – nothing! It was so frustrating. I got up quite early this morning and drove back out to the end of the groin – the only place I had opened the car door during our drive – thinking they may have fallen out there. Nothing! Then this afternoon, we were looking for a small booklet and I rechecked my bag for at least the tenth time – and there were my glasses in a pocket of my bag that I never use because it is so hard to find. And a moment later, we found the booklet in another bag that we had both also searched five minutes earlier. I think we might both need new glasses to find my lost glasses.

Yesterday was about 40 degrees with a burning westerly making everything feel even hotter. Today is 17 with a freezing easterly, chilling our bones.

We decided to walk into town to post a couple of parcels (family birthday gifts) and while there, we decided to have lunch at the pub, despite getting our planned lunch out of the fridge before leaving the van. We shared a small pizza and a bowl of chips and still brought a doggy box of Happy Hour food home for later today. It was a five kilometre walk and despite the chill, we really enjoyed it, looking at birds and plants and historical and other local signage along the way. Our timing was perfect – it started raining just as we opened the door of the van when we got home again.

We spent most of the afternoon in the van and made our own version of paella for dinner. It was delicious despite us having to substitute a few ingredients for others that we didn’t have. Creativity is the mother of invention and we created a truly great Dweag Paella.

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mrtgarage · 2 years ago

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gpstracking091 · 2 years ago

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RNC Auto Electrics

Contact info

Address: unit 2/25 Gwen Rd Cranbourne West, VIC 3977

Phone Number: +61 434016286

Business Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.rncautoelectrics.com.au/

Description:

RNC AUTOELECTRICS is a mobile & workshop operating business established in 2015. Service provide in Southeast suburbs in Victoria with over 18 years of experience. We can repair any breakdown which related to the Electrical system of the vehicle. We do battery replacements , Alternator Starter motor repair or changeovers , repair Ignition system faults. Key Programming Diagnosed ECU , ABS , SRS , ESC , IMMO faults Electrical accessory Installations - Reverse camera , Parking sensor , Electric Break Controls , Dual Battery Systems , Guages , Stereo system upgrades , Sub woofers & Amplifiers , Vehicle security system upgrades , 4WD , Caravan accessory fitouts , Trailer wiring & Marine accessory fitouts , GPS tracking solutions.

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Auto Electrician Cranbourne

Operating Hours:

Monday to Friday

8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Saturday

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

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Year Founded:

2015

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sos-amchespin-sendhelp · 2 years ago

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Here is the situation as it stands:

Mystery Dungeons, technically, do not have a perceivable appearance. They can only be measured through the matter it distorts and remanifests from its algorithmic generation. Where conventional reality borders a Mystery Dungeon, the result is a subtle "uproar" of matter where the old rules fall away and the intradungeon rules fall into place. The area of transition is known in academic circles as "porch collapse."

Whether this even counts as porch collapse or not, it was violent enough to glitch out my phone camera by sheer proximity.

We were travelling northwest within the narrow strait that seperates Zero Isle North from West. The Mystery Dungeon in front of us by all rights should not be here. The caravan is reversing course by unanimous decision.

(+ a quick reminder that this is still an askblog. Ask me anything and I shall answer to the best of my ability, or ask someone else and I shall relay the message to them.)

#pkmn rp #pokemon #pkmn irl #pokemon irl #mystery dungeon #pokémon mystery dungeon #pmd #artwork #ask blog #pokeblogging

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lindoig7 · 5 years ago

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Wednesday/Thursday - 15-16 July

Wednesday, 15 July

We started with Heather having a big laundry day and me ticking off a bit more business stuff. So much of what I seem to do sounds like 5 minutes work, but always takes a couple of hours – not only because I am a slack-arse. There are always complications, unexpected additional research or reading to be done, interruptions and soon that make the simplest task more time-consuming – not to mention my inherent incompetence and the fact that the technology often simply doesn’t work.

We watched a rerun of the Camel Webinar over (yet another) wonderful lunch (I really can’t explain how she comes up with all these creative delicacies!) Then it was into town to have the reversing camera moved on the car to improve my ability to connect the van to the car. It has improved it a bit, but it seems really only marginally, so experience will determine whether it was worth the effort. While the car was being doctored, we walked into town – nearly 2 km – where we purchased and consumed a particularly ordinary sausage roll before walking back to collect the car – only an hour later than promised.

After another exceptional meal, we watched the final episodes of The Crown. They have obviously paved the way for at least Series 4, 5 and 6 – maybe more. A good series, but the characters were portrayed somewhat at a contrast with the previous series. West Wing is still #1 for us, but we are not quite ready to do that for a fourth time just yet.

Thursday, 16 July

We took another excursion today – this time to Wilson’s Promontory. It was a two-and-a-half-hour drive but definitely worth it. The drive was wonderful, very green, really bright green, as the road wound through the hills. There were areas of dense forest and wonderfully deep steep valleys that opened up into endless verdant pastures – quite spectacular. The valleys contained lots of emerald treasures - patches of brilliant green surrounded by areas of darker shade that the sun didn’t reach.

We did the Lilly Pilly Valley Walk. It is about 7 kilometres and pretty challenging with some really steep parts, but a great preparation for other things we want to do. Of course, it took us about twice as long as the Notice Board said – but perhaps some people march the whole distance whilst we were often on our haunches photographing flowers and fungi. We had half our lunch along the path (had left the other half in the car) and just moseyed along (between occasional gasps) and took in the environment. The forest was very quiet, almost devoid of any fauna at all that we could see – certainly I could count the birds we saw on two hands and there were very few places we even heard the odd twitter. Everything was damp with lots of moss and fungi and the trees and understorey reminded me very much of the Tarkine in Tassie. No wonder given that it was only a few million years ago that the big island was joined with the little island. (But during a week in the Tarkine, I think we saw and heard even fewer birds than on this particular walk.)

We ate the rest of our lunch in the car after driving on to Tidal River. We saw numerous wombats, a kangaroo, a few wallabies and an emu along the road and a few more birds around the Tidal River parking area. We walked through the dunes to check out the beach, but it was getting late so we didn’t tarry too long and headed for home via a slightly more direct route than we took getting there. It was well after dark by the time we got back to Warragul, but it was a good opportunity to try out the light-bar we had installed on the car prior to the trip. It certainly makes a BIG improvement over the original lights without the LEDs. We don’t do a lot of night driving in our travels, but the new light-bar is at least ten times as effective as the factory lights - a huge improvement and I amreally glad we made the investment.

Backat the caravan park, we warmed ourselves up with a hot shower and ate a great dinner – another of Heather’s wonderful creations – then started a new DVD series. It is One Strange Rock: a scientific look at the evolution of Earth, narrated by a very animated Will Smith and featuring a lot of excerpts (or are they inserts?) by 8 astronauts reflecting on the insights gained after seeing the earth from space. It promises to be a very interesting series.

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theageofthemovies · 5 years ago

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ROSETTA - (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 1999)

The extraordinary debutant actress Emelie Dequenne in four stills of Belgian existential movie "Rosetta" (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 1999). The story is of a well-determined girl who anyway finds for a job so she can both take care of her alcoholized mother and pay the rent of the caravan where they live; when dismissed, she has no problem to denounce as a thief the guy who helped her to obtain the job (but the anguish of her ruined life seems too painful to be borne...). Winner of an ultra-deserved 1999 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, this brilliant movie (some spoke of "masterpiece" and I can someway agree) is imo the best of the creative couple of brothers/filmmakers at their best here to direct with great skill and energy the story of an indomitable little heroine (the young Dequenne, who won the best actress award for her stunning performance in the title role), a resourceful teenage girl who endlessly struggles to find her way in a tough, pitiless world. Her fight for a job (that she finds, she loses, she finds again, she loses again, she takes back...) is the embodiment of her fear of disappearing, the shame of not belonging.... The Dardenne brothers, careless of early narrative frames and of any ideology, paint the desperate portrait of a human being, only careful to grasp the immediate sincerity (and "reality") of their heroine's actions, her anger, and her fears; in order to accomplish, this they renounce to the traditional cinematic device of the shot/reverse shot and concentrating instead the camera only on their feminine character and her reactions. And, this way, the chronicle of a daily misery becomes a reflection about both the evilness of the world and human solidarity. (RM****)

r.m.

#RobertoMulinacci #Dardenne #Rosetta

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focusrvgroupaus · 5 months ago

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Discover High-Quality Caravan Accessories in Campbellfield: Essential Additions for Your Next Road Trip

At all times an embarkation of a road trip is an intriguing experience, particularly when you have a durable motor vehicle to take you around your trips. Be you a travel veteran or a beginner ready for your first journey, supplying your caravan with the right accessories can be a breakthrough in convenience, security, and nice living. As for those who reside in the Campbellfield area, the existence of an array of top-quality motorhome facilities in their locality provides a housing solution for all their outdoor activities.

In this section, we will present the different caravan complements that can modify your road trip feel drastically. Those must-have accessories serve not only to add more features but also to help ensure that you can still have all the conveniences you are used to and, at the same time, be in touch with nature properly.

1. Awnings and Privacy Screens

In other words, it is difficult to think of a successful travel experience without preparing a comfortable outdoor space as well as ensuring the interior is cozy. Caravan awnings shield you from both sun and precipitation, making them an absolute requisite on your journey. The presence of privacy screens in your own surrounding outdoor setting also lets you relax, even in the highly congested camp locations.

The Campbellfield facility provides you with many selections, including from manual to intelligent types, thus catering to your needs to the fullest. Search for flexible, waterproof stuff to use wherever your vehicle may travel; ideally, there should be different vendors for the product.

2. Advanced Battery and Solar Solutions

On the assumption that you are going to be on the road for quite some time, it is very likely that you will have the need to seek out a place off the grid, where electricity is hard to come by. Installation of highly developed battery systems and such lightweight augmentation as portable solar panels is a game-changer. With these appliances, you can ensure that your motorhome solar panel remains in the running mode and so you can utilize needed resources such as lighting, refrigeration, and charging the gadgets without any problem.

Solar panels have become more popular because of their sustainability and simplicity. If you are using a powerful battery with them, they can provide the caravan with enough energy to last you through the journey.

3. Water Tanks and Filtration Systems

Not only on a road trip but also in any work, a reliable water supply is necessary. By means of high-capacity water tanks, you can carry enough water for your own sustenance, cooking, and cleaning. One way to ensure your water supply is safe is to get a filtration system installed.

Advanced filtration systems remove impurities and increase the taste of water, which is in particular necessary when getting water from unknown places. Campbellfield's caravan accessory shops provide a range of water-based solutions to meet your needs.

4. Storage and Organization Solutions

The space can soon become a luxury in any caravan. The right storage and organization accessories may help you to get the most out of your free space.

The collapsible storage containers, under-bed storage boxes, and the overhead cabinets can save useful stuff safely and above all reachable. Furthermore, relating to kitchen supplies, you will be inspired by stackable cookware or pull-out pantry organizers to perform the dual task—freeing space and working out functionally.

5. Towing and Safety Equipment

Caravan towing mainly means correctness and security. The tow bars, swiping controls, and brake controllers mentioned are the required towing accessories to make sure a hassle-free and secure venture.

In no case should you neglect such details as mirrors, reversing cameras as well as lighting upgrades. The supplements are of great help not only in safeguarding but are quite beneficial when it comes to maneuvering and parking your caravan.

6. Comfort Enhancements

Boost the inside of your caravan and make it as cozy as possible. An electric memory foam mattress, a seat equipped with a massage function and heating feature, or even climate control gadgets can make your car trips feel like a first-class ride.

Another aspect is entertainment! A portable Wi-Fi router and smart TV units could let you stay online and watch TV on the go no matter where you travel.

7. Kitchen and Cooking Essentials

A caravan with a good kitchen is a perfect partner for your culinary exploration on the road. Barbecues food, ovens that can be folded, portable stove tops, are the appliances that you cannot do without. Be sure to have the food you want by having a kitchen full of them such as utensils that are made from light materials and unbreakable dishware for the caravan.

Find Your Caravan Accessories in Campbellfield

For Campbellfield residents who want to renovate their caravan, it is easy because of the local rv experts who know your requirements. Whether short time breaks or long voyages are in mind, trailer accessories that are just right will serve your purpose.

The region is inhabited by several parts suppliers, so it is important to choose a vendor who is renowned for quality and reliability. On the other hand, Focus RV Group is among the organizations that have a variety of Caravan Accessories Campbellfield tailored to the requirements of any traveler in the market.

Conclusion

Road trip is about more than just getting to your destination, after all, it is about the journey and the memories you make along the way. The proper caravan equipment will guarantee that you travel with class, safety, and comfort.

Apart from awnings and solar panels, towing equipment and storage solutions, Campbellfield stocks all the items you desire for enhancing your vehicle. Start planning your adventure today and let your accessories pave the way for unforgettable road trips.

#caravan awnings #caravan parts melbourne #jayco caravan repairs #focus rv group #caravan accessories #campervan repairs

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jflashandclash · 6 years ago

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Traitors of Olympus IV: The Fall of the Sun

Fifty-One: Kalypso

A Stalling Resolution

Their sneak escape, if they could call it that, was the most pathetic, obvious one in the history of stupidity. They would have had better luck transporting a stack of cymbals on top of an elephant.

That’s exactly what Pax wanted: the cymbals specifically, but Kally assumed he would also want an elephant. Thank the gods Frank had left in a huff before Pax came up with any ideas.

Calex’s job was to reroute Reyna so Axel could get a proper goodbye with her, then ask Chiron to use the camp phone so he could call his parents. Axel disagreed with the first part of the plan, but liked that Calex could keep an eye on Chiron while contacting his step-dad and sister. If that didn’t take enough time, Calex would ask Chiron to come with him to check up on Vinyl’s healing process from being tossed by Python.

Merry’s job was assuring Frank wouldn’t change his mind. And keeping Frank away from Axel and Reyna. And, really, making sure Frank was the happiest Canadian he could possibly be.

Kally was supposed to escort them until the last minute, to make sure they only left the camp and no one incited unnecessary havoc.

Calex and Merry said their goodbyes in their recovery room.

Calex and Axel shook hands. They agreed with Kally: when everyone was better and Calex came back from Britain, they would have to have a proper soccer match. Pax tackled Calex into a forced hug, which left Calex frantically checking all his pockets, until he withdrew his Arsenal beanie. No one knew when or how Pax had gotten that from Thalia or how he could reverse pickpocket with a gimp hand. Maybe Kally shouldn’t have been, but she felt relieved to know he could still enact that terror on the world.

After a few threats from Lapis, Merry confirmed she’d come wherever they were hiding to help out with Hiro within the next two weeks. She would also deliver news on how Sam Datta did on his makeup final. Lastly, Merry patted Pax’s head. “Don’t go kidnapping Kallybae, now,” she teased, “I need her here, at least for a bit.”

“No promises,” Pax said with a grin.

Then Merry and Calex were off, leaving Kally to wonder, casually, if she really was about to be kidnapped again. The others weren’t in any shape to do a proper kidnapping, but she wasn’t in any shape to resist.

Pax was brainstorming theme music for their slow, slow walk. There was a ramp down the Big House’s porch for Chiron’s wheelchair, but the rest was a trudge through grass. Every jostle made her scared of ruining her skin grafts. Will had strictly told her to lay off her powers for a bit, but she couldn’t help investigating how bad her burns were. They were gross.

“Then we’ll have a heavy guitar riff that rolls with the motion of Axel’s wheelchair wheels. The double-bass drums would be thumping along to Lapis’ limp. All heavy metal. Then, during our trailer, the camera will pan out and words will flash!”

Pax put his hands on his hips and said with his deepest bravado, “Hospital Heroes: coming to save your town... Eventually.” He waved a hand in front of him to simulate the length of time.

Eventually was correct. Lapis had to push Axel in a wheelchair while Alabaster pushed Kally’s. Axel had the weird birdcage with a blanket rested in his lap. The ride was bumpy and Kally felt stupid and silly having Alabaster silently walking behind her. Claymore got the glorious job of dragging Euna behind them in a bright red wagon with a squeaky wheel. Pax—with his maimed hand and sore shoulder—skipped happily alongside the others. Without any responsibilities.

Everyone was surprised when another wheelchair raced from the cabins to intercept theirs.

Pax leaned close enough to Kally for her to feel wisps of his hair and whispered, “Wheelchair duels. Let’s do this! We have an injured Axel, and can probably get a trash can lid and yard stick for jousting. We’re sure to win.”

She swatted him away with her good arm, trying to hush him, especially when she saw Miranda Gardener pushing Sherman Yang towards them.

“Hey! Wait! I have a bone to pick with you!” Sherman shouted. For a moment, Kally froze up, thinking he was talking to her. As they got closer and blocked off their path toward Farm Road, Kally realized the child of Ares’ dark eyes were narrowed above her at Alabaster.

Miranda looked calm and… maybe relieved when she brought Sherman to a stop.

Their noisy caravan paused.

“He might need to wire you a message, since Alabaster can’t really talk right now—aye! What was that one for?”

Kally glanced back to see Lapis releasing Pax’s ear. “Lazy and out-of-date word play, Ajaxapax. I expect better.”

Squeaks erupted behind Kally. She glanced back to see Alabaster holding up his whiteboard. They’d tied it around his neck for the sake of ease. The white matched his medical smock.

He wrote, What?

Although his expression was difficult to read, since he had to move his head as little as possible, Alabaster’s emerald eyes appeared annoyed. Maybe they always looked like that.[1]

Sherman inhaled and puffed out his chest. “Thank you for shooting me in the legs four times,” he said. His tone was neutral, eyes intense.

Lapis choked back a laugh. “Holy Hun-Batz, Ajaxapax, you said this sissy-gorged camp was only for hair braiding.”

Kally glanced down at Sherman’s legs. From what she could see under his lap blanket, both were fully wrapped in bandages.

Alabaster raised an eyebrow. He wrote on his white board. It was my pleasure.

“No really,” Sherman said.

Miranda smiled softly and set a hand on Sherman’s shoulder. “He’s not being sarcastic.”

Sherman reached up to take her hand. “I don’t know what would have happened to Miranda, Matthias, or Stoll otherwise or… or if I would have killed Clovis. I know we fought on opposite sides of the war but… you’re alright.”

Both of Alabaster’s eyebrows rose. He nodded his head stiffly and wrote. Alabaster looked away as he held up the white board. I’m glad you’re both okay.

With her good arm, Kally reached back to touch Alabaster’s side. Pax had shuffled closer to lay a hand on his arm.

Alabaster shrugged them both off.

Sherman cleared his throat. “Yea, well, the Stolls left a surprise for you in your Paxmobile. As a heads up, that Praetor chick just showed up there to supervise Matthias and Tyson.”

“And she was not happy about it,” Miranda added. “She came from a weird direction and looked pissed. I hope they haven’t changed their minds now that Percy is gone.”

Kally wasn’t sure what Percy had to do with this or what Matthias and Tyson were doing by the Paxmobile. If Matthias had his way, she was sure the son of Hephaestus would be painting the van pink.

At the mention of Reyna, Axel shuffled in his wheelchair. He sat up, and for a terrifying moment, she thought he was going to try to stand. Lapis, seeming to sense the same thing, poked him in the chest bandages. Axel collapsed back. Sweat glistened on his brow as he fought to control his breath.

At Percy’s name, Alabaster’s expression turned to a glare.

“This is heartwarming and all,” Dr. Claymore growled, “but, if we get one more interruption to this happy promenade, I’m going to leave this wagon stranded here.”

“He’s just sad we didn’t attach the balloon to his wagon,” Pax explained to Sherman, holding his hands out in a what are you going to do? gesture.

Dr. Claymore shot Alabaster a look and Kally had to wonder how much Alabaster had warned Dr. Claymore about Pax’s… Paxness. Alabaster’s shrug looked exhausted and defeated.

“Hardly,” Dr. Claymore finally said.

Miranda gave them a soft smile, gave Euna’s slumbering form a worried glance, and pushed Sherman back towards the cabins. He nodded stiffly in parting.

“If Doc gets tired of pulling Euna, we could make a sleigh. Tie Axel and Kally’s wheelchairs together with Euna’s wagon at the back. Then we could lasso Mrs. O’Leary and—”

“I swear Alabaster. I’ll shoot him before the day is over,” Dr. Claymore grumbled, dragging the red wagon ahead. Kally hadn’t noticed until now that their escape was even more obvious than she could have imagined. Everywhere Dr. Claymore pulled Euna, a trail of flowers sprouted in their wake.

Something about seeing Dr. Claymore with a flower trail made Kally choke on a giggle.

They made it to the Paxmobile without anymore interruptions. A few Romans and satyrs saw them while they went through the fields. One of them—Ric?—scowled and looked like he was going to approach them, but another—Erin? A newer recruit Kally remembered being nice—dragged him away. Most of the Romans were pretending not to notice the caravan.

Kally wondered how this felt for the boys. She knew how much Alabaster hated the Romans and Greeks and how terrified Pax had been of them. Despite Pax’s attempts at cheeriness, Alabaster and Axel’s faces had gone red with each Roman’s glance. Even Lapis’ mood darkened. They were leaving their former enemy encampment beaten and broken, as heroes running like villains, with their only reward being a chance to flee. Even that was treated like a favor.

This wasn’t a joyful escape towards freedom for Alabaster, Axel, and Pax. It was a walk of shame.

With everything they’d done and how much they’d risked, her insides burned at the thought.

Before she could say anything, they crested the hill above Farm Road.

Luke, the automaton golden donkey that pulled their van at mythological hyperspeed, shined in the sun. He munched at a bucket that must have contained motor oil. Someone had attached a This ass welcomes you banner around Luke’s neck.

There was a new contraption on top of the Paxmobile. It was made out of celestial bronze and looked almost like a bike rack, but the bars came down the sides of the van, more like a cage. Her throat constricted until she saw Tyson helping to move something huge off a makeshift fork-lift and onto the top of the rack.

Although it was tightly wrapped in protective coatings, Kally caught her breath, sharp enough that her ribs hurt. It was Joey’s statue. They’d reinforced the van structure to bear the weight of the stone.

A blond chubby boy stood beside Reyna, appearing to argue with her. When he caught sight of them, he bolted forward. Kally had a surreal sense of déjà vu as Pax broke into a run towards Matthias Sverre Hanson.

“Ajax Pax, here to relax!” the Nordic boy called as he collided with Pax in the gentlest collide Kally had seen. Matthias carefully lifted Pax around the waist to spin him.

Through Pax’s laughter, his voice quivered. “Dude, you gave us ramming power. Now Joey can fight, even in statue form.”

“We figured you guys would want her, and that Hera wouldn’t want her in her temple,” Matthias said. He set Pax back on the ground. The first time she saw these two hug, Matthias had been way bigger than Pax. Pax must have gone through a growths spurt in the last few months. Matthias had struggled to move him.

The son of Hephaestus tapped his fingers together. “I heard you were doing everything you could to get the Zhang man to change his mind about letting you go. Without Percy around to argue for you guys, I’d be careful of that.”

“Percy?” Kally echoed, though immediately regretted it. Without turning around, she could imagine Alabaster’s scowl and could feel some of the hatred radiating outward.

“Yea. Something about how the gods promised Percy that they would forgive all the children that fought on the Titan’s side, and how New Rome needed to respect that promise. He said it was Pegasus dropping that the gods back out on that promise by omitting you three. He was really pissed when they found out that they banished you, Witch Boy.” Matt pointed some finger guns at Alabaster.

Tyson hopped down from the top of the van. The vehicle made a terrifying crunching noise. “Yes! Percy made me promise his friends would get away safely! Mattie said he make sure you leave safely from here!” He patted Matthias’ arm.

The son of Hephaestus almost flopped onto the ground under the motion. “You got it!” The cyclops gave everyone a huge, happy wave before walking back towards camp.

“Say hi to your chicken for us!” Pax called after.

Kally desperately wanted to know how Alabaster was reacting. He’d shown nothing but contempt for Percy, someone he blamed for the murder of many of his siblings. Kally would have to ask later. Reyna was approaching their group. Miranda had been right: Reyna did look pissed.

Her dark eyes were icy as she examined Lapis. “You weren’t part of the deal.”

Lapis snorted and would have taken a step forward had Axel not shot a hand out to block his path. Without turning from the praetor, Lapis said, “Hey, Witch Boy, Doc, can either of you drive stick?”

“I’m a Mist form. I could dissipate at any second,” Claymore said, without truly answering. He set the red wagon’s handlebar down. Euna mumbled and tried to roll in the wagon, only accomplishing tilting it slightly.

Alabaster scribbled onto his board. He’s not wrong and I don’t have a license.

“Witch Boy is too good to drive himself places. He had sexy, Hispanic chauffeurs for that,” Pax said, brushing off his shoulder, then Axel’s.

Lapis put his hands on his hips, leaning heavily on his good leg. “Ajaxapax’s hand looks like a yeti’s chew toy and Tufted Ears is about to exhaust himself from breathing too heavily in your presence.”

“I’ll remember this next time we’re all hanging out with Sapphire,” Axel growled softly. Kally glanced over at him. Axel managed to keep his chin up, but his ears were flattened against his hairline. His face was tinted red from embarrassment. One set of claws dug into the wheelchair’s armrest while the other gripped the blanket overtop the birdcage.

Reyna examined the birdcage in Axel’s lap, not seeming to notice his humiliation in her anger. “That wasn’t part of the deal either.”

Kally’s skin felt cold as she realized who, not what, was probably gagged inside the birdcage.

Dr. Claymore cleared his throat. “As thrilled as I am at the thought of getting rid of that thing, do you really want him lounging around one of your camps? If he’s under Orpheus’ curse, you can’t kill him. You know the other children will underestimate how dangerous he is. We were doing a fine job keeping him under control before some of your people attacked one of his wards in front of him.”

Kally held her breath. That was the most direct she’d ever heard someone be with Reyna. Though, most people she’d seen interacting with Reyna were other teenagers, not angry middle-aged men. Kally had a feeling Dr. Claymore could have been talking to the Queen of England and had the same level of reverence.

Reyna frowned and went to open her mouth, but Matthias raised his hand and waved them. “Yea, whatever. Reyna and Axel can go argue over who gets custody of the Plague Bringer. Meanwhile, uh, Lapis, if you’re the driver, I’ll need to talk to you about some adjustments I had to make to the Paxmobile for optimal statue awesomeness. And Doctor Dude, you’re the adult, so I wanted to go over some stuff with you too. Pax, Alabaster, and Kally can check out the gift Chris, the Stoll brothers, Sherman, and Clovis left for Alabaster.”

Lapis snorted and jammed one hand into his pocket. With the other, he hooked his fingers around the birdcage to lift Jack out of Axel’s lap. “You could have just said you wanted to give Red some time to fondle Ajaxapax and Witch Boy before they say goodbye.”

The words resonated in Kally’s head. Say goodbye. Although she had Alabaster behind her and Pax and Axel beside her, emptiness clutched her chest. Calex would be flying home to Britain soon. Merry still didn’t know where she and her brother would end up once the courts were done sorting out their family. Even if Merry were emancipated, she would have to live in New York, at Camp Half-Blood and Kally still didn’t feel like she could live here and pretend to worship these gods. Would she have to go home to Virginia, alone, and go back to school and pretend nothing happened? With all the struggles everyone else was facing, she felt guilty feeling sorry about it, but… She had no idea where the Pax boys and Alabaster would end up. Sure, Kally needed to get home and tell Mr. Paine and her family that she was alive, but would she really be—

“We are not going to fondle,” Kally said, belated. Her face felt like it was on fire.

By the time the words came out of her mouth, Alabaster was already pushing her wheelchair down to the van.[2] Matthias, Lapis, Dr. Claymore, and Jack’s birdcage were strolling further down Farm Road. Well, Lapis was awkwardly hobbling. Kally remembered Pax once telling her that you needed two feet to operate a stick shift. She wondered whether or not the boys would end up stranded a mile away after Lapis’ bravado ran out.

“You two can talk in the back of the van,” Pax called to Reyna and Axel as he hopped alongside Alabaster and Kally. “You know. If your fight needs to get private—”

Alabaster tugged Pax forward, cutting his words off. Assuming the truce between the Romans and the Triple A Chimera really was temporary, she knew who they were hunting down with a gag and a forty hour seminar on polite conversation. And, if Frank had his way, a grizzly bear.

The ache in Kally’s chest grew the closer they got to the van. The beat-up white vehicle shouldn’t have made her feel fuzzy on the inside, considering how many times she’d almost died since stepping into it. Now, she knew the logo Pax had painted over belonged to his father’s pharmacy company, and she better understood the nearly burned-off, bright, kindergarten-like letters:

Pax Extraction Team

Ajax, Axel, Alabaster

Discounts on Protection Today!

They would need to paint over the scratch-out and re-add Alabaster’s name properly.

Alongside the van, there was a red satchel that bulged awkwardly, like Santa decided to give them explosives this year. Her heart sank even further to realize Christmas must have been a few days away.

Alabaster stopped her wheelchair alongside the van. All she could do was look at the red satchel to ignore Axel and Reyna’s voices as they disappeared inside the back doors, and ignore how warm her eyes were beginning to feel. If she wasn’t careful with the teary-eyed thing, she would end up looking like a puffer fish had rolled all over her face, and she really didn’t want that to be the last impression Alabaster and Pax had of her before… before…

How long would it be before she saw them again?

Kally swallowed and went to open her mouth.

Pax held a finger up to her lips. Really, he put a hand up to her face since he couldn’t curl the other three fingers back. He gave her that devilish smirk and winked his hazel eye.

With his functional hand, he pointed to the cracked passenger window of the van.

Alabaster rolled his eyes and leaned against the side. Although he tried to look nonchalant, Kally could tell he was either resting from being out of bed too soon or getting closer to the window to listen to the conversation inside.

Kally knew she shouldn’t. Part of her insides squirmed to think of Axel and Reyna finding them eavesdropping and what the two powerhouses would do, even with Axel in a wheelchair. Hades, Axel would probably offer for Reyna to throw him and the wheelchair as violent ammo.

But, Reyna’s voice came through the cracked window so clearly, and Kally really wanted a distraction.

“—pretending not to realize it, but it’s only a matter of time before some of my enemies in the senate start asking about why my father’s ghost was haunting me. They’ll use it to get me exiled or worse.”

“That doesn’t mean you need to resign due to a suspicion. Your soldiers love you.”

A sigh. The van shifted weight as, Kally guessed, Reyna sat down somewhere. “That might change once everyone hears the Triple A Chimera escaped from the custody of two praetors. One of us will have to take the fall, and I won’t let it be Frank.”

“I won’t—” Axel cut off abruptly. He swallowed audibly before his voice came out much gentler, almost fragile. “You know, if something happens, there’s this small group of friends of mine that are thinking about starting a camp. We’re kinda rag-tag right now, but there’s a position open for a weapons instructor.”

Alabaster rolled his eyes, not pleased with that prospect. His hands clenched into fists. Instead of continuing to listen, he knelt down beside the Santa bag and dared to blindly open something from the Stoll brothers. Kally or Pax should have warned him what the Stoll brothers were like, but the singing satyr butt balloon was probably as much warning as Alabaster needed.

Pax, meanwhile, pouted. “That sounds a disappointing amount like they’re not going to make out. I heard Axel got the title of Cat Breath while they were in Xibalba. Imagine Reyna’s reaction if she smelled the Fancy Feast on him.”

Maybe she should have been more indignant on Axel’s behalf, but she was too excited about something he had said. “You’re still going to make the third camp?” she asked, trying to keep her hope from making the question too high-pitched. She’d been scared to ask about it, especially around the Romans and Greeks.

“We’re still going to make the third camp,” Pax said. “You can’t get rid of us that easily. Like I told Axel, I’m like a parasite. Besides, you owe me too many drachma and Reese’s Sticks for me to just leave, Cyclops.”

Alabaster made a startled noise and Kally guessed it didn’t have to do with her debt.

As he stood up, he pulled the Cloven Terror helm from the red satchel. The Stygian iron enlaced in the ram’s head seemed to radiate darkness. Those eyes looked so hollow without the familiar green glow. Creepy as the helm was, Kally wanted to touch it, to see if its cold, taunting voice would greet her. For a startling moment, Kally wanted to wear it.

When Kally shook off the feeling, she found Alabaster’s emerald eyes examining her. With that look of understanding, Kally knew she had shared something with Alabaster that he’d never shared with anyone else.

Pax jumped gleefully and scurried to investigate everything else in the bag. Within a second, he recoiled from the next helm.

The Leonis Caput helm, the Silver Tongued Snake helm, Axel’s Nemean lion pelt, Alabaster’s spell elements, and the pieces of Pax’s utility belt were all inside as well. There was also a note that Alabaster snatched from Pax so Kally could read it aloud. “Please don’t use these to kill us. Love, the Stoll Brothers.”

Pax mimed wiping a tear from his eye. “Weapons of murder. Such a sweet peace gesture. I wonder if we can recruit the Stolls to join our future pranking squad. I mean, camp.”

With how much the Romans feared these, Kally was genuinely impressed that the children of Hermes had stolen them back. She considered all the people and items now expected to fit into the Paxmobile: Dr. Claymore, Euna, Joey on the roof, Lapis, a half-paralyzed Hiro, Alabaster, Pax, Axel, Backbiter, this satchel with the three darker alter egos of the boys.

“Do you guys have somewhere to go? While you’re—um—we’re planning out the next camp?” She had no idea how that was going to work. This was too big a group to live out of the Paxmobile like the boys had been doing when she met them, let alone take a few hour drive without Clamore shooting Pax. If the Romans really did decide to hunt after the Triple A Chimera, they couldn’t go back to Alabaster’s ruined house. The Romans knew its location and Kally assumed his HOA wouldn’t appreciate the pieces of dragon strew across the lawn.

“After we drop by the hospital for Hiro, I have an idea.” Pax gave her his devilish smirk. “I don’t really plan but—”

Pax stopped talking. His mouth opened for a second as his eyes went wide. Then, they narrowed and his smirk took on a different quality that Kally wasn’t sure she liked. “I do plan. I am the schemiest of anti-hero schemers that has ever schemed. I do have a plan. And, it starts with this.”

Kally flinched when Pax leaned directly to her eye level, his face close enough to smell his chocolaty scent.

Kally glanced at Alabaster, panicked. This was Pax, right? Pax who never planned and was proud of it? If Pax could turn into other people to cause mischief, could Atë or Eris? Kally had no weapons on her. She didn’t know if she had the strength to conjure another sun javelin and would definitely melt off her skin graft if she tried.

Alabaster’s eyes also went wide. One of his hands had hesitantly strayed into the red satchel.

“Kalypso Kassand, I, Ajax Pax, hereby absolve you of any oath you have to me on the River Styx. You no longer need to keep my secrets under threat of an eternally damned soul, just under the threat of this sad panda face.” He reached to touch her chin. Without the ligaments to control his fingers, his caress was rougher than usual.

Kally had seen Pax’s puppy pout at least a hundred times over the last few months. This time, it felt different. The cute, happy innocence didn’t extend to his eyes.

Kally couldn’t focus on that with what he said. Her mouth fell open. The tears she’d been trying to fight back threatened to surface. All this time, she couldn’t freely talk to Merry or anyone about everything. She didn’t always know what Pax considered a secret and had to wait for his permission to tell people things, things that could have probably saved lives. The freedom, something she just accepted she’d lost forever, made her heart thud.

“Thank you,” she said. Kally choked back the tears. Her face would be lobster colored in no time. If she let herself cry, the ache in her ribs said it would hurt a lot. “However, since you tricked me into it in the first place, I want you to call off our drachma/Reese’s debt off.”

Pax’s pout morphed into a smile. “You’re wising up, Cyclops. How about we cut it in half?”

“Down by a quarter,” Kally said.

“Deal. Alabaster, what’s a quarter of a lot?” Pax asked.

Alabaster scribbled on his board. For a moment, Kally wondered if he actually remembered her debt and was doing the math. Then Alabaster flipped his board, revealing that he’d taken the time to draw a middle finger instead of just flicking Pax off with his hand.

“Aw, Alabaster, the time you took to draw that shows that you care,” Pax said.

Kally could hear the back door of the van open, letting Reyna hop out and adjust her braid in a way that made Pax do a giddy My brother got to make out and is probably unconscious because of it dance. By now, Lapis, Claymore, and Matthias were walking back towards them with the birdcage. The ache in Kally’s chest increased; their time was almost out.

Kally felt stupid asking when she would see them again. Plus, she didn’t need to leave that to their hands. As Merry and Atë had pointed out, Kally wasn’t a doormat anymore.

“You guys are Catholic, right?” she blurted.

Alabaster went to write on his whiteboard.

Pax swiped his marker.

Alabaster scowled.

“As Catholic as a Mayan-Greek demigod can be,” Pax said. Although Pax had answered for all of them, Kally had a guess as to how the god-hating child of Hecate might feel. That would need to be a discussion for a different day.

“Come over to my parents’ house for Christmas,” Kally said. Her face felt like it would melt off if it got any hotter, but she didn’t care. She was taking a stand here.

Pax’s expression softened. The darkness melted from his eyes so he could relax into a much more genuine Pax puppy face. “So we can scare your racist brother again? Kally, that’s the best holiday gift you could have given me.”

The last time she was home, Axel had terrified John, her brother, and his drunk friends with a trick of the Mist. Had that really been the last time anyone from her family had seen her? She was terrified for the inevitable “I told you so”s about getting into a white van with two random guys and disappearing for a few months.

Even Alabaster seemed to calm at her proposition. Either that or the exhaustion was getting to him. She wouldn’t know until he finished erasing and rewriting whatever he was doing on his board.

“There’s a really tough conversation I need to have with my mom about my real dad,” Kally said, trying to keep her voice even. “And it would be nice to have back up in case she gets too mad to talk to me during the holidays.

After rewriting one more thing, Alabaster finally held up his board.

We’ll be there.[3]

Kally’s heart skipped a few beats.

Lapis, Matthias, and Claymore walked back over with the birdcage. Matthias and Reyna stood on either side of Kally’s wheelchair as the boys put the red satchel into the back of the van. Fortunately, Euna woke up enough to groggily stumble out of the red wagon.

Euna paused, glancing at her sister’s statue attached to the top of the van. She reached up and touched Joey’s stone foot. Also fortunate, she didn’t seem to notice Lapis, who carefully avoided that, “damn, psychotic grass hippie.”

Kally wanted to give Euna a hug or to ask her what happened when she disappeared down to Tartarus. She wanted to tell Euna that Calex had demanded she give him a phone ring as soon as she was feeling up to talking, and that Thalia said she’d hunt Euna down to slap her for the “flower cocooning.” Whatever that was.

But, Euna’s dark eyes were so glassy, Kally wasn’t sure if Euna even knew she was awake. The eerie glow to Euna’s skin, made her look surreal and Kally was suddenly nervous to approach her friend. She wondered if Euna was aware enough to tell her father about what had happened to Joey.

Not that the Pax boys, Alabaster, and Claymore wouldn’t keep her safe, but they weren’t the most comforting.

Before Euna could disappear into the van, Kally said, as loud as she could with the ache in her chest, “Euna! Let’s get milkshakes sometime soon!”

Despite everything they’d been through, Kally knew uncomfortably little about Euna except that she liked food. Kally hoped that would be enough.

Euna’s distant gaze found hers. She gave Kally a thumbs up. “I like milkshakes.” Then she slipped into the van with Backbiter in sword form.

Lapis hopped into the driver’s seat and put Jack’s birdcage in the passenger seat. Axel made Matthias roll Kally closer so he could give her the gentlest hug from where he was propped inside. The glance he shared with Reyna made Kally wonder exactly how their conversation had ended.

Alabaster reverted Claymore to a Mist card to conserve on car space, and to prevent him from shooting Pax. Alabaster squeezed Kally’s hand.

Then, Alabaster and Pax were hopping into the van.

Pax paused in the doorway with the doors almost shut. Baller, his crazy weasel, scampered up his clothing to rest on Pax’s shoulder. He gave her a devilish smile and winked his yellow eye. “Just remember kids,” he said to Reyna, Matthias, and Kally. His gaze lingered on Kally. Reyna sighed in annoyance and Kally, similarly, had to wonder if Pax had rehearsed whatever he was able to say.

He sucked in a deep breath. “The moral of the story is: if you’re cute enough or pathetic enough, you can get away with anything. The system is broken and villains get to walk free.”

With those uplifting words, Pax shut the doors.

Reyna walked behind Kally. Kally’s throat constricted, wondering if it would be worse to have Reyna—someone who still terrified her—or Matthias—someone known for pranking—push her back to the Big House.

Reyna made the decision when she rested her hands on Kally’s wheelchair. Kally wanted to watch the van drive away, if nothing else than to make sure Joey’s statue wouldn’t flip off. The older girl didn’t seem interested in such sentimentality.

“Wait,” Matthias said when Reyna went to wheel her.

They paused and looked at the Paxmobile.

The Paxmobile made a few revving noises.

Then made a pathetic puffing noise.

Luke the donkey snorted once, seeming unimpressed with the van’s epic failure.

Another rev.

“Hansen?” Reyna asked.

Matthias grinned. “Oh, I disconnected the battery to fuck with them. I’ll give it three more tries before Axel—”

“HANSEN!” Axel roared from the inside. “WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY VAN!?”

“And with that, I’ve made Axel angry enough that he’ll allow Pax to come back and prank me.” He withdrew a wrench from his pocket and walked towards the Paxmobile. Matthias cheered, “Now we’ll have to see them again.”

Kally grinned. Even without Matthias’ disconnect and the promise of a chaotic, crowded Christmas, she was sure they would.

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Okay! So I’m going to refrain from a long-winded, soppy author’s note until the second epilogue is out. For now: thank you guys for reading! T.T You’ve all been so nice and supportive, especially those of you leaving such encouraging comments and asks! I really hope you enjoyed!!! Stay tuned next week for Epilogue Part I.

I can’t believe this whole thing will be out and done at the beginning of August O.o T.T

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Bonus:

Leo was definitely digging Brooklyn House’s set up, with the giant albino alligator, Sadie’s annoyed boyfriend, and Sadie’s panicking older brother. It was nice knowing Calypso was at camp, helping Chiron in the healing center and that he’d never need to see that creep, Pax, again. He just wanted time to figure stuff out, between Calypso’ trickery and how Pax had messed with his head. However, as he helped craft a massive carrier for all the healing vials Jazz, Brooklyn House version of a child of Apollo, had made for them, he couldn’t fight off the nagging feeling that he’d forgotten something else.

On the plasma TV hanging above a fireplace that was large enough to park a car inside, he caught the words of a local news anchor.

“—unsure if this is a runaway Christmas float, or a well crafted-prank drone—”

Leo almost dropped his contraption. “Uh, Lady Sadie?”

“Yes Commander Valdez?”

“Uh, we may have left a homicidal, flying metal dragon loose in New York City.”

“You left a what?!” Carter almost screamed from another room.

“Nothing brother dear!” Sadie called sweetly.

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Footnotes:

[1] Mel betanotes, “Maybe it’s Maybelline.”

[2] So, in the first rendition of this, I put, “Alabaster was already pushing her down to the van.” And I realized that wording might be a bit forward/unbalanced considering how much of an audience they have and how he can’t move his mouth.

[3] No, the epilogue is not a Christmas special. XD that was Mel’s first guess.

#Traitors of Olympus #LAST OFFICIAL CHAPTER! JUST THE EPILOGUES! AHHHHHH!!!!!#PJO #HOO #TOO #fanfiction #basically everyone that's important XD #The advent of sassy Kally #I need to hold it together for the epilogues XD

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