[Week 9]

[missmaladroite]

[Marinette is Exhausted but there's no rest for superheroes!! Especially ones who have somehow adopted half the ship!! The whole secrets business leaves a bad taste in her mouth, especially with several of the people here apparently being dead.]

[And one of those people is Luke.]

[She's worried, to say the least. So even if he may not want company right now, she's knocking hesitantly at his door]

Luke? It's Marinette.

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[missmaladroite]

[Why are demi-gods going to camp??]

But, how is that possible...? People can't just come back from the dead!

[Maybe he should break out that proof]

[chiseler]

[To be protected by a pinetree tbh]

What do you think I've been trying to figure out for two months? [But he's silent for another moment and...this is weird, she's a teenage girl but you know what, proof is proof. So he's moving to grab the bottom hem of his shirt and he's tugging it up to turn his left side toward her. Namely, he's showing off the fact there's healed blistered-like skin that would match all of the marks from an explosion and what-have-you, and he's even lifting his arm to show her the scar from the stab wound of his Achilles heel.]

But people also don't just have these things if all of that wasn't real.

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[missmaladroite]

[She starts to reach out to the scars to touch them and verify with her own hands, but thankfully realizes it's inappropriate and super weird and stops]

[and hides them behind her back]

[nailed it]

[missmaladroite]

You've got to be kidding me! [It wasn't just him, but Jason too, and argh]

Alice--- or whoever's behind this, can bring people back from the dead?

[There had been akuma trying to revive Nefertiti with a ritual, but, uh, this is a whole new level of nonsense]

[chiseler]

So it seems. [He knows about Jason, too. That's also weird.] I just haven't figured out why she would do that and how she bypassed the laws of the Underworld. Souls aren't supposed to really leave, so…either I never made it there or our AI's more clever than we think.

[…there's a light laugh, though more incredulous than humorous.] You can see why I never told anybody here.

[missmaladroite]

It's not something you can really explain....

[But if this story is true - and she has a hard time believing it isn't, that opens up a whole new perspective. If Alice can just bring people back, does that mean everyone who died can live again? What will happen to Luke and Jason once the 'game' is over? Will they go back to being dead.]

Do you think... it's part of the experiment? If she can just stop someone's death.... Maybe she traveled back in time to the moment of your death and saved you? Like in a movie?

[It's not theoretically impossible, but]

[chiseler]

Exactly. [But he listens to her because it's something he's vaguely considered. Marinette seems to put his thoughts into words though and he finds it easier to talk about it than if he'd brought it up himself.]

It's possible. She can apparently pick us up from all of our worlds, so maybe. But that raises the question of why. I can see wanting to stop someone's death and why that would be interesting to test, but…["Why me????"] What's so special about these deaths that she was interested in?

You ever think about the kind of people that're on the ship? I haven't found a real pattern yet. [Apparently he finds that Marinette's smart enough and trustworthy enough to have this conversation.]