[Is this guy speaking from experience because he is, or because he has experience watching people from the other side of some invisible line? Adam can't tell. For Christ's sake, he'd just virtually challenged a demi-god to a game of chicken, brought on by Peter Pan challenging them to a much bigger game of chicken--goes to show that nothing is really what a person expects in Wonderland.
The boy could be anything under the sun, or not even a boy at all. Adam opens his mouth to answer, just rolling with it. He's not one to get shy over holding conversations with strangers, but there's a little less riding on the exchange than usual.]
It is when you're in a real fight with something that's not.
[That is experience talking. He casts a thin smile at the bonfire, matter-of-fact rather than bitter, the latter result of what happens if he follows that train of thought too far.]
Then it's just another way of saying "bottom of the pecking order." I wasn't expecting to take her out.
[And while Adam might have been serious about putting Jo's lessons to the test, Clarisse probably didn't need to. +1 in favor of the god squad.]
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The boy could be anything under the sun, or not even a boy at all. Adam opens his mouth to answer, just rolling with it. He's not one to get shy over holding conversations with strangers, but there's a little less riding on the exchange than usual.]
It is when you're in a real fight with something that's not.
[That is experience talking. He casts a thin smile at the bonfire, matter-of-fact rather than bitter, the latter result of what happens if he follows that train of thought too far.]
Then it's just another way of saying "bottom of the pecking order." I wasn't expecting to take her out.
[And while Adam might have been serious about putting Jo's lessons to the test, Clarisse probably didn't need to. +1 in favor of the god squad.]