Acky smiles as he looks around. "Home." He says quietly to himself. He closes his eyes and daydreams of where he grew up. A daydream more vivid than any other, thanks to his powers.
I laugh a little to easily slightly offended does she really think I am weird"I am not a weirdo! I just like a good smoke after the goddess of death destroys the asteroid I used to call home!"
Artemis nods. "Oh, it's a cigarette. My friend told me about them but I didn't know that's what they looked like. And I don't think gods can get cancer, so you two are fine."
I sigh, "those things cause cancer which makes my valkyries jo-" I realize what I said and I freeze. The pain I've been repressing hits me all at once and it overwhelms me and I scream, obviously scaring everyone else in the room.
"The valkyries..." I manage to mumble out. So many of them died at once... It hurts so bad, my necklace starts rapidly heating up until it gets so bad I throw it off, a burn mark left in its place.
He began to wonder why he had felt uneasy at all. It was like a man wondering in broad daylight why a dream had appeared so terrible to him at night. — Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
