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[The video feed flickers on but Luke seems more intent on studying the touchscreen that's popped up once he turned on the bracelet. He'll get around to addressing everyone in a sec, he's a little more interested in getting more familiar with the technology. Demigods and technology generally didn't go together for safety purposes, but if he was already dead, maybe it didn't matter.

Granted, he wasn't even sure if he was still dead at this point. This wasn't rebirth. He didn't have any recollection of anything beyond his final breath, but here he was and he was able to breathe, see, and think. And then, of course, there was the fact he could also apparently hear other people's thoughts. It was jarring to have random strains of thought that weren't his entering his brain. He had to figure out how to control his new power so that it didn't drive him to insanity. However, he had more important matters to attend to. He finally stops, focusing on directing his message to the city at large.]

Someone told me that the gods talk to us a lot. Our gods aren't exactly the most chatty, so I'm not sure if I buy it. Which one of them are we supposed to talk to if we don't belong here? [His fingers seem to be reaching forward to push some buttons on the keyboard, still experimenting.]

If I can’t get an answer for that question, then how about this: who's actually right in this war?

[There's a lot more he'd like to say, but as it is he's going to stop and just wait. Come on, Asgard. Give him options.]

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I'd say the ones that aren't out for our heads. Isn't that how wars usually go?

You'd think so, but everybody's always working on their own agenda. What I want to know is what the gods plan to do if they win and what the giants would do if they win. Do you really think Loki's telling the complete truth?

Too new to say myself. But I figure I'm better off siding with the guys who won't be out for my blood just 'cause a bunch of gods dragged me here.

See, exactly my point. Everybody's working on their own agenda. [But it's a smart strategy, he has to admit.] But I'm not picking a side until I get some more answers. [If only because he's pretty sure as soon as someone gets in touch with him he'll be shipped right back out to the Underworld.]

Ehh, does it really matter who's right?

I would assume there is no right or wrong. It most likely nothing more than clashing ideals. [ Not that he knows for sure. He's only just arrived, so his information is pretty sparse. ]

Not really, but I want an idea of who's got the best idea for the world. [Or. He did back home anyway, and that didn't work out too well. Still, this isn't going to be his war for long. He already told Annabeth he wouldn't be there longer than necessary.]

Probably. Then I guess the next question is how do we find out exactly what the giants have in mind.

You're not going to get much of an unbiased view around here! And it's hard to have a chat with the other side when they're too busy trying to gut ya.

But you do get into some pretty good carnage from this side! So hey, it works out.

Take it from someone with experience: you're better off not picking a side at all. Don't wanna fight? Sit it out. No harm done.

[To Alvin, it means this guy is jumping the gun. Going for someone who just sees them all as someone to kill, someone to sacrifice? He's been there. He doesn't care who's right and who's wrong. He's saving his own neck right now.

He knows it's a cutthroat way to do it, but he doesn't want to risk himself for no return. And no one he cares about is here. And this guy is right: who's to say the whole "your world is in danger" thing is true? His world is in danger anyway. What's new?]

What's so great about carnage?

Take it from someone else with experience: not fighting? Never really works out. [He's gotta wonder what would have happened if he didn't aid Kronos in his attempts. What if he sat by and ignored the titan's calls in his dreams? Well...he probably would have ended up fighting against him with the other demigods anyway. Sitting out wasn't exactly in the vocabulary for their kind, and he knew it.]

What ISN'T great about it, is more like it, nya ha!

Or are you one of those guys who's never killed a single person?

So you're prepped and ready to be one of the only ones to stand up against the rest of us? That takes something.

[Even he wouldn't stare down the barrel of a gun in that way.

Though maybe that was the problem.]

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[To be honest, or not to be honest. That's the question here.]

Well, I never said that.

I'm still deciding. If I ever get the answers I want, I might not even have to take it that far.

Except you sound ready to not like the answers you get. So what gives?

[Nope.] What makes you say that?

"If I ever get the answers you want ..."

You know what you want to hear.

Better than believing every little thing they tell us, isn't it? [It's...sort of odd trying to apply his old philosophies to his new life, but a lot of it still stands true. Why should he believe everything just because someone "important" says so? He'd gone far too long without answers, and the answers he got still weren't good enough. He was being selective, yes, but he was also being smart in his opinion.

He wasn't going to let the past repeat itself.]

You could write a book on this, couldn't you?

[He means skepticism. Alvin doesn't blame him one bit. He remembers meeting Milla and doubting her. At the time, he was right to doubt, but he didn't know that. The whole thing was odd, and his attachment to deities is pretty slim. Sure, he likes Milla, but Milla isn't exactly the Lord of Asgard.

Too bad, really. Alvin could give her a ringing endorsement. But she was one of a kind.]

Believing and acting are two different things. No one taught you that one, huh?

A best-seller. [Alvin. You must think he's a total idiot if you think he's going to go around saying anything in public at the moment. He knows exactly who's in the city and he knows exactly what those kids think of him. He's not entirely ready to face all of that yet.

So instead he just gives a fluid shrug, leaning back in the chair he's sitting in and folding his hands behind his head.]

I'm self-taught in pretty much everything. [The safe answer.]

Too bad you're caught up in fighting wars and complaining about lies. You're denying us.

[Alvin has already caught on that this guy isn't willing to talk. So be it. He'll still poke at him consistently. He's so tightly wound as far as Alvin is concerned that he could definitely use it.]

So that's a no. Heh, no one's ever properly self-taught.

[It's said lightly, but he glances off camera ever so briefly after he says it.]

They're both out for their own hides and their own interests. [grunt] Right and wrong are words people give in a lot of societies, a lot of cultures. Do what thou wilt, I say, but I know only one thing.

Thiazi has no interest in leaving us to do what we wilt, and I've seen how she fights. Plagues, madness, dragons raining fire down. We're past concerns of right and wrong. Just need to make sure whatever we do doesn't make things worse.

Gotta have something planned for the aftermath, right?

[That. Is pretty much an understatement. However he looks slightly affronted by that accusation.] I think I did a pretty decent job. [You know. Before the whole letting the king of the titans use his body as a vessel to come back into existence.]

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