#so do ya'll think naomi solace is a serial killer

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Reading The Dark Prophecy: Chapter 13 (SPOILERS)

"My life goal is realized" What, working minimum-wage in a fast food chain? You think Lityerses might not recognize them if they just pretend they work there?

"Unless, of course, they were searching for intruders, specifically us..." You didn't get that already? Always assume there are people looking for you if your previous dream told you there are people looking for you.

"manipulating pins in a lock wouldn't be too different than weaving threads in a loom." Can anyone who has done both confirm? This sounds like iffy logic. "The two things sounded very different to me" What did I say? Exactly. "but I couldn't argue with the results." Also true.

"You'll know when I get my magic back, because you'll find yourself being tossed across Indianapolis." Can she do that? With her wind spirits? Also, I wondered earlier whether her invisible air servants got left behind on Ogygia, but the way they've talked about them since then suggests that they are not her servants, but actually regular air spirits she can command, maybe like Mellie. This is relieving. Maybe those nymphs can leave the island now if they want to. Or maybe as nymphs they're more comfortable with staying in one place like dryads, idk.

"Carnivorous horse mix?" Oh no no no, not the man-eating poop horses from the Triple G Ranch. "Combat ostrich cubes?" Ayo cover art "Surely they're not grinding animals into food?" Is she vegetarian? Or maybe it's just the grinding-into-processed-meat part that disturbs her?

"I was overwhelmed by a vision" Oh no not now not again this is a Bad Time-- Well, at least they're deadbolted in.

"nothing about the tent suggested the harsh life of the Roman legion." Did Roman emperors lead the charge into battle or did they stay out of the fighting? I'm willing to bet that for Rome it depended on the emperor, but which was most common?

"a solid gold cornucopia." What fucking river god did they harass for this one?

"And you are perfect, I thought" Physically, maybe, but I'm pretty sure he likes to torture innocent souls as a pastime. I only simp for him in jest, but Apollo seems serious about it. With this awful of a precedent for his flings, one of his kids at camp must be the child of, like, a serial mass murderer or something. (Is that why Will is a year-rounder? We don't know what Naomi Solace does in her spare time...)

"Ask for a furlough?" FURLOUGH (n.): suspension or discharge of a worker or workers on account of economic conditions or shortage of work, especially when temporary

"He is so virtuous" Really? The guy waging war on every vaguely threatening piece of land around them for the entirety of his reign is virtuous?

"Who names their child Bruttia?" Poor girl. "Ostriches" Oh, the cover art. Here come the ostriches! <3 <3 <3

"But what did I care? I was a god." Oh just you wait, Apollo. The roles are going to be reversed.

"Look at the prices." It's a fast food place. How bad could it be? "$15,000 per serving." UM. ?????????? "isn't that a bit pricey for a meal?" YUHUH. "I was adventuring with someone as clueless as I was." Wait, you mean to tell me that he was understating it when he said "a bit pricey"? He genuinely doesn't know how expensive this is? Whatever, they already broke into the zoo and broke into the café. They shouldn't have a problem with stealing at this point.

"Percy Jackson could drive a car." Ah yes, Perseus Jackson's primary and most useful demigod skill: driving.

"a golden metallic coating." Ah, that explains it. The griffins have the appetite of Arion.

"'Let me use my super vision to look through this wall and check,' she said. 'Oh, wait.'" She sounds exactly like Leo when she says that.