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[unsever]

"Can't pick up the phone right now, you know the drill."

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[fathertoson]

[ Our Lady of the Tree? That sounds interesting. She seems to gloss over it, so he won't bug her about that right now. ]

You don't have to apologize. I know this is hard.

[ Hades, a gun with a bullet that could kill a god, it sounds like a weird mash up of things he's had to deal with before. It's probably easy to read in his expression, thoughtful rather than shocked, even though she's only giving him the very basic details of the situation. That's something that he's used to as well, since things have gotten a lot more complicated for him over the past few years. ]

I'm not against having these things on principle, we've got a lot of problems to deal with that we can't take down with just any gun. I just don't want them to get to the wrong person at the wrong time, you know?

[ It's always going to be a messy situation, but he does recognize the necessity here, that's driving her forward with this. ]

And it's nothing on you, but I don't want Dean to have to shoulder this all on his own. He'll do that, if I let him.

[unsever]

It seems Dean and I might have the same problem. [ Julia was very bad at asking for help, it’s why she was so hypersensitive about this whole mess and the restraints for checks and balances Dean had put on her. She was used to working alone, had adjusted some to working with Kady… But working with any more than just a single person had a bad track record for her.

She was getting better with the group back home, but she still felt somewhat out on her own island with occasional visitors. Her path was a lonely one and that was okay. She'd come to terms with it and she was learning to ask for help when needed. If her powers were stable enough, she probably would have tried to recreate the battery on her own, but they weren't and she didn't want anyone getting hurt because she'd tried to take on too much. Besides, even making it, she'd still need someone to pull the trigger since she couldn't trust that she'd be able to do it herself in that moment. ]

As for this possibly falling into the wrong hands, I will do whatever I can to make sure that doesn't happen. There might be a warding spell I can enchant the bullets with so only certain people can touch them. I-- I have experience with going into something with the best of intentions and being tricked back home. That ended with a bloodbath and I can't let that happen again. [ Her voice cracks a little at the end, Julia's head shaking as she focuses on the task at hand. It wouldn't happen, there was no trickster god luring them into a trap. No, she'd made this decision of her own volition. That was her grounding rod through this whole thing. It had to be. ]

[fathertoson]

I'm starting to see that.

[ He doesn't mean anything critical by it. It's actually said with a touch of a sympathetic smile. He can already tell that she's fighting against the urge to take on too much of this on her own, and by the sound of it she doesn't have anyone she's as used to working with as he is with Dean. They do everything together, and have for a long time. Sure, Dean would like to shelter him from the worst of things like he did when they were kids, but that just doesn't work anymore nowadays.

It's better not to have to fight to be treated like an adult. At least not all the time. ]

It's just going to be hard when any of us could be compromised. We'll just have to keep track of who has them, and if anything happens we've gotta make sure that they're safe.

[ But they shouldn't get too far ahead of themselves, should they? ]

Nothing's gonna be foolproof, we just have to do the best we can.

[unsever]

[ The person she’d have willingly dragged into this mess with her wasn’t here. So, she’d thought about flying solo… But that wouldn’t work with the components of this. ]

We might be able to enchant the boxes to only open after maybe a certain test or something. Maybe not a password, but something. I don’t know. We’ll have to look into it.

My people from home might have some ideas with enchantments we can use and safeguards that might be a little out of the ordinary.

[ And while nothing was really permanent here, there did seem to be long term consequences to death the more it happened. At least from what little she’d managed to glean from conversations. ]

But, I’d also like to do some research before dragging too many people into this. So, I guess maybe we can pick a starting point for tomorrow and then build off of that. [ Choose a direction before pointing people blindly off somewhere. ]