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[The video feed starts and a miniature metal wind-up replica of Buford is walking across the table between Leo and his starfish communicator (which, out of sight, is held up by a stand he made last week.)]

So what's there to do here when the bubble isn't broken and filled with water? I've been here a little over a week and I'm curious what you all did for fun and to fill the time.

[He pulls out some pipe cleaners from his tool belt and starts fiddling around with them as he talks. He looks like he's hopped up on loads of caffeine, but it's just his severe case of ADHD.]

I've been helping with the repairs, but that's not going to take forever. So what is there to do once that's done? I know some of you have been here for more than a year... That's a lot of time to fill. I hope I'm not here that long. I know time doesn't move back home, so it's not like I'm missing anything... but I'd like to get back and help my friends finish saving the world.

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Judging by the disappointing lack of personal slaves, I'm betting they had a lot less fun down there than I intend to have with my afterlife.

Are you charging for your repairs?

Where do you come from that you have personal slaves? Slavery is illegal where I'm from.

Not on the coral. It's kind of a volunteer job.

Well, of course it's illegal nowadays, but I never really took advantage of it when it wasn't. I think I'd really enjoy having someone wait on me hand and foot.

You believe in all that giving stuff, too, huh?

Just how old are you? [Leo should know better than to ask a lady her age, but if she's old enough to have been around when slavery was legal, she can't be human.]

You don't?

...twenty-two. [Really. Honestly. Well, maybe not so much.]

It's a nice idea but it just doesn't prove to be very practical.

Sure you are. [He's not buying it, but he's mostly going to let it drop.]

Fixing the coral means having somewhere better to sleep and a lot more useful things. Kind of worth it in the end.

[He'd rather go back home, but since he's here, might as well make the best of it.]

Don't you know better than to ask a woman her age?

That somewhere better to sleep might also be full of hidden video cameras so those scientist people can spy on us.

Sorry, but if you were around when slavery was legal you've got to be 150 or older. That kind of makes you something other than a "woman".

They're already spying on us. I'd rather be comfortable while they do it.

Oh, so you think a woman who isn't human isn't a woman?

That's not what I meant.

Then by all means, explain to me what you did mean. Maybe you were going to use a different word, like "hag" or "crone."

I wasn't going to use either of those, but since you brought them up, are you?

[He's not going to say what he meant because he's not really sure himself.]

You've got some nerve! You're lucky I am human again.

So what were you when you weren't human?

[So not helping things, Leo.]

For over a thousand years, I granted the wishes of women who'd been scorned by men, exacting bloody vengeance and bringing forth chaos to the envy of lesser demons.

[And Leo thought Annabeth was scary... He is now properly terrified and glad she's now a human.]

Oh.

[He has nothing more to say to that.]

Sadly that's all behind me now. I'll have to settle for making you pee your pants.

I'm not that scared of you. No pants peeing for me.

I could get more descriptive.

I'll pass.

Then the least you could do is hit yourself in the face a few times.

[he gives a WTF?! look.]

How about I don't and just say I did?

That's silly. I can see you clearly in the little video screen.

I did it off screen.

Did not.

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