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Imagine (Son of Hades! Percy; Godswapped! Big Three's kids (6/7) or (11/12)

House of Hades Pt.2 - In the Argo II

Hello darlings! Before reading this, there's at least other 11 parts - and I almost had to divide this into two - check on the masterpost - but don't be sad is ending :(

First - I have no idea if I'll divide Blood of Olympus in two because I hate the climax Rick wrote - so probably? Also not sure if I'll need an epilogue - we're not delving into TOA, though.

Second - I'll keep writing! I have a handful of ideas that I want to do next - and the next AU will have Female! Percy - so keep logging in!

Check on the warnings before proceeding, and good reading :))

To say that things are tense in the Argo II is downplaying the major depression the ship seemed to be sunk in since Perseus fell.

Leo and, surprisingly, Nico are the only ones who are able to get anything done in the first couple of days, but they aren't fooling anyone - the white eyes of the son of Zeus seem to be every day a little more bloodshot, and more than one fire happens without no explanation.

Annabeth didn't stop crying for a second - even throughout Will's examination of her and her brother - for at least 12 hours. Then she crashed for another 12 hours - and when Annabeth woke up, she was enraged.

She is going to bring the damned statue back to Camp - and then she will kick her mother's ass. That's her best friend, not collateral damage.

And when her dumbass of a best friend comes back, Annabeth is going to kick his ass too. How dare he fall - for her, not even his closest friend - into freaking Tartarus?

Frank is devastated - he and Piper are coping by planning the future - how they can spend the summer at Camp and live in Nova Roma, how they'll visit Perseus if he decides to go to college in the mortal world. It feels a little like denial.

Hazel and Jason are coping in the totally opposite way. Where Leo and Nico are fueling themselves with determination, Annabeth is anger personified and the other two went in the road of negation - they're both in a deep state of panic.

The sea became too dangerous to travel - the tides answering to Jason's turbulent emotions - and any metal on board keeps exploding or becoming so fueled with energy that no one but Nico and Hazel can touch it.

They pray together - for Neptune, Jupiter, Pluto, Letum, any god that Perseus ever helped (a lot of them) - for his protection. Jason holds evening prayers - just like in Nova Roma - and they offer anything, everything, for Percy to be alive. Everyone goes.

Except for Will, who is in a whole other league. The moment that he arrived at Camp, Percy was the one to settle him, and calm him, and take care of him. It was a side of him no other person in this ship had ever seen - Nico got in Camp in the worst timing possible, and all the others were pretty independent when they met Perseus.

But Will remembers - the nights with hot chocolate, Percy's warm sweaters, a pair of blue gloves messing his hair, the anxiety when the boy left for school, just for him to keep IMing Will every evening - and he misses Percy.

After the Labyrinth, the war, the losses, they reconnected - the prejudices against Percy's parentage long gone - and it felt like nothing ever changed.

It was Percy who helped him coming out for his mother. It was Percy that held Will after he lost Sibele - a daughter of Momus - to her injuries. It was Percy, always Percy.

Percy is much more of a father then Apollo - and much better as a brother then some of Will's siblings. So Will just locks himself up in his infirmary - and grieves. It's weird in such a hard mission to remember that Will is just fifteen and that he is a veteran of war.

The mood lingers, even when they start fighting regularly against the Apennines - and isn't this a whole other mess.

The mountain spirits are pissed - because Hades/Pluto and his wife are really pissed. It's Malcolm - the only one with a phone and a good connection to the internet - that tells them that the world started having earthquakes every few days.

The mortals are confused because most of these are not even close to the tectonic plates - and none of those cause turmoil at the sea. It's just Hades - mightly pissed his only son is beyond even his reach.

Three days in fighting the Ourae - who don't like having their mountains shaken over and over again - the sky also starts thundering. Coincidentally, it's July 30th - they've been traveling for twenty-two days - which also marks Thesmophoria - the greek festival of harvest.

But, alas, nothing is blooming. Persephone is as dangerous as her husband - and Demeter seems to follow her daughter's lead. With the Earth corrupted - the crops aren't growing.

Jason doesn't blame his matron - he is not really happy himself. Besides praying for Perseus' safety, he spends most of his days in patrol against boulders and rocks of all things.

Leo barely sleeps - too busy keeping the ship from falling apart - and Nico is, most of the time, right behind him keeping the ship steady. They try using canons and fail miserably. There's no way to fight against mountains - it's like Dom Quixote fighting against the windmills.

The others, even Will, rotate between fighting rocks and sleeping. Four days after Thesmophoria, Leo decides it's enough, turns the ship around, and solves to not cross the Apennines.

He just hopes Perseus can last another seven days.

Hazel - the only one awake, because this is supposed to be her patrol and Leo finds her the most reasonable out of all their friends, who would probably insist on keep fighting the freaking mountains - is praying. Like always.

Leo doesn't know how he feels about praying. His extended family was very catholic - they prayed for a god that they couldn't see or touch. But Leo met the gods - or, if Annabeth is to be believed, one set of them - and he doesn't like them.

They're petty children who have no care for the fate of their children - the ones who fight for them, go on their errands, keep them alive, y'know. Leo doesn't want to praise them. He doesn't think they deserve it.

But Hazel's prayers are answered when her venti, Tempest, appears aboard. Hazel tells Leo to go on without her - she'll be back soon.

He is concerned for her - like always. Of all new people, Leo seems to be the closest to her - his overall cheeriness and electric behavior are endearing to her, a light in these dark times. Sometimes, his smile makes her flush - just like Frank's did and still does.

Hazel mounts Tempest and the venti takes her, through mountains and hills, to a door. There's mist curling at her ankles and a chill in her spine.

She isn't very thrilled by meeting Trivia - Hazel heard stories of her greek son by Perseus, who seemed to hold the guy in high standard, but she knows gods. The goddess of magic wants something.

Trivia is an imposing woman - taller than Hazel, she has the same midnight skin as Perseus, though hers looks purple-ish, and her eyes are entire universes - stars bloom in her irises and twin moons rise in her pupils.

The goddess is fickle - she seems to be there and not, at the same time. Ghostly. There's three of them, then one, then five.

Trivia beacons to the daughter of Jupiter and she follows, the cursed little girl she is. The goddess offers her three options: Perseus, prone in the ground as she, Leo, and Annabeth battle an invisible foe, the two demigod installments at war, or the Argo II.

Hazel chooses the Argo II, but she promises herself, and the goddess, that she will save Perseus, and that no demigod blood will be spilled by other demigod's hand. Not again.

She will learn how to control the Mist. But Trivia is very mistaken if she thinks Hazel is going to become her acolyte. She remembers well what happened last time - she died.

The Argo II is traveling without much hassle - when they're crossing Monte Falterona, in the Campigna National Park, they are attacked by a new mountain spirit - and this one talks.

"Get Pluto his brat back, you useless halflings!"

Like the boulders the immortal is throwing at them will help. Leo screams this back at the mountain, who is not impressed at all.

Their next foe is in San Marino - a chimera. Most popular knowledge is wrong about those monsters: chimeras are not just goat-lion-snake mixes. They are an amalgamation of any three or more animals.

This one, in particular, is a very... candid mix of a Pyrenean chamois, a monk-seal, a mouflon, and a goose. Not very lethal or hazardous - just very angry. It's the first time they hear Annabeth laugh since Perseus fell.

While Malcolm is chasing and being chased around by an evil goat-goose-seal-weirdass deer chimera that he is fending off with an encyclopedia, the others can't even bring themselves to help. It's ridiculous - the thing is not even big. It's just ugly and it sounds like a honking clown.

Eventually, they get around to killing the clown chimera - it honks as it vanishes - and following route to Bologna. Frank tries to mutate to the chimera during the travel - to different levels of failure - which makes everyone laugh.

Thanks to their two encounters, the crew gets to Bologna at two in the afternoon.

Frank can't help counting the days as they pass him by. He is not the only one - he can see Annabeth muttering the time every now and then - but it feels like a countdown. Can Perseus survive one more week in Tartarus?

Even with the pressing worry for his lost friend, he can't stop thinking about Hazel and Leo. The two of them are thick as thieves - and Frank wants in.

But he knows it's wrong - Leo is a boy. Hazel is younger. Leo bares a power that could kill him. Hazel is his best friend. They're two people. - but he sees them flirting and can't keep his eyes to himself.

It's wrong. Soldiers aren't supposed to date men. Men who dated men are prostitutes, entertainers. Less. And two people at the same time? Outside of a bedroom? Preposterous.

Frank wishes he was more like Perseus. Perseus is all about duty: he would eventually marry Reyna. Or Annabeth, or other pretty and intelligent warrior, and have two point five kids with a picket fence.

But no. Here he is - midday, they are stopping for lunch, and he can't keep his eyes off Leo and Hazel - who are quietly chatting in the other end of the long table.

Frank ponders what would they think. Would the two be repulsed? Would they laugh at him? He can deal with laughter. Their disgust, however, would cut his heart in half.

Nico is in a very similar, and yet completely different, situation. He has been in love - or as close as love could be when you never dated the person - with Perseus Jackson.

He knows it's okay to be gay - he is friends with Will and Jake. He lives on CHB since he was a pre-teen. Perseus himself was - is - queer.

But the thing is, he'll never have a chance with him. Not the chance he is longing for gods know how long. He failed Perseus yet again - he let the demigod fall.

Perseus can have anyone. Perfect Annabeth Chase, Shrewd Reyna Arellano, Magic Alabaster Torrington, anyone. And he wouldn't have a problem with that - no. The problem is that he can't make a choice. Because he is in Tartarus.

Because Nico. Let. Him. Fall.

He isn't even sure if he let Perseus fall on purpose. A part of his mind knew someone would have to go. It was always meant to be Perseus. Did he purposefully let him go?

The rational part of his mind knew that if he tried to fly them off, all he would accomplish is falling into Tartarus with Perseus, probably dragging Annabeth with them.

But the guilt creeps into his heart - again, yet again, Perseus suffers for something he did or failed to do. He can't sleep. He doesn't know how anyone can eat.

A rock for him in these difficult times has been Jason. The son of Neptune seems to be as affected as Hazel or Annabeth - but Nico would never be able to rely on them.

Hazel has her own problems - a lot of them since Trivia appeared - and Annabeth is a painful reminder of everything Nico is unable to have.

Jason, however, is different. They had dreams of each other - something about their conquests, Nico didn't pay attention - and that apparently brought them close. Jason, differently from Annabeth, isn't a competition. He isn't vying for Percy's attention and love.

He is just a close friend - like Nico pretends to be most of the time - incredibly worried about the son of Hades. Nico would tell Jason about how he feels - but the militar roman's sensibilities might not be adjusted to the greeks' freedom yet.

Nico, however, is also not the only one with heart problems. Piper finds himself entranced by Annabeth Chase - even when she knows, she knows because of her powers, that Annabeth is painfully straight.

And Piper knows it's not love - it's the heat of the upcoming war and the hormones of being cooped up with just other teenagers for twenty days. She sees the blossoms of young lovers everywhere.

The yearning between Leo, Hazel, and Frank; Nico and Jason unconsciously sharing long-term crushes on Perseus; Will missing Jake and his parental figure;

She wishes she was more like Malcolm. Malcolm is asexual - besides being the only other transexual person on board.

Before this war spiked from nothing, the boy was just back from his mission for Hermaphroditus - a two-month search for a missing choker. He is still adapting to his body - it's bigger and broader and he doesn't have to wear a binder. Piper thinks it's amazing - he tells her it isn't that easy.

It's not a slow transition. One second your body is something - and then it isn't. One morning, the demigod caught him holding a red binder in his hands. Sometimes, she sees a shot of testosterone tucked in his pocket.

One day, he was a boy stuck in a girl's body. Then, he wasn't anymore. He has the body he dreamed of for forever - and it's difficult accepting it. Malcolm tells her is not exactly body dysphoria - is just difficult to conciliate.

Piper thinks after this, she'll get her body. After all of this, she deserves it - her body, all hers, with boobs and a killer jawline. Maybe then, it'll be easier to like girls as well. Maybe then, she'll shave half of her head and get a piercing. And maybe, a couple of tattoos.

But while this doesn't happen, she is whining to her asexual friend about her crush in his sister. Malcolm crushes her with logic - "Annabeth has only shown interest in men. She might be bi or pan or even a lesbian, but the odds aren't on your favor" - and she tries to put the blonde out of her mind.

Lunch, however, is a little ridiculous for her. As a daughter of love herself, that table is such a mess of yearning and pining and infatuations.

Malcolm seems to be the only rational - but even he is a little flushed. Piper totally saw that picture of Mitchell in his drawer last week.

She couldn't blame him really - her brother is hot. All demigods are - in very different ways of course, but their godly blood made them more or less otherworldly compared to mortals. Didn't matter their ethnicity, their gender, if they're disabled or not - they are all hot.

Piper, however, doesn't spend all her time freaking over hot people. She is a teenager with a friend who has a good connection to the internet, so she does that a lot - but most of her time these days is looking at Katoptris.

She's waiting for a vision of Perseus. Anything - just proof that he is alive, that he hasn't curled in a ball on whatever is the ground down there and went mad.

It doesn't come. She is looking at this ridiculous lunch table, eating vegetarian burgers, and waiting. Just as it seems like her dagger starts glowing gold - two monkey twins sweep down and steal it. And Leo's tool belt and Archimedes' Sphere.

Piper is really pissed. She wants this mission to end - she wants to find Perseus and stop Gaea, and that's her magical item. It's important. So she and Leo go after the twin monkeys.

Using one of the armory's javelin - for lack of a better option - they sprint over roofs and marketplaces. Bologna is a beautiful city - but they have no time.

They corner the twin monkeys, get their things back - and some things pertaining to a god of harvest - Triptolemus. Perhaps if they make an offer to him, Demeter and Persephone will be more cooperative. Maybe Persephone will be able to calm her husband.

Piper really doubts it. If she learned anything in the nineteen days she traveled with Perseus, is that he calls Persephone "Kore" or "Mater". The only other person he refers to with such open childish joy is his own mother, Sally.

The guy IMed both of them twice a week - enough that Piper knows their voices. While Hades isn't high in the demigod's list of people, his wife seemed to be at least number #2.

But they go back to the ship and relay their plan anyway. They set route to Venice. In the hour that it takes them to get there, they're delayed twice: once by the personification of River Ádige - which enabled them to pass until Jason helped with a small problem - and then by a couple of ventis - which Hazel sent off.

Frank, Annabeth, Hazel and Nico venture into the drowned city - Piper declines to go, saying that she is waiting for Katoptris to cooperate - being Nico the only one who actually speaks Italian in the ship.

The city is infested with anteater-like herbivorous monsters called katoplebones, which are pointedly not from the Greek pantheon. It's pretty rare for monsters to cross pantheons - and the Egyptians are pretty good in keeping them under lock and key - but sometimes, this happens.

They aren't capacitated to deal with those. Annabeth has half a mind to call the Kanes and demand an explanation. Pretty sure they were possessed by the gods to avoid this kind of situation.

She doesn't have much time to think - Hazel is quickly overwhelmed by the poisonous breath of the cows. Of course - is there anything in Egypt that isn't connected to snakes?

They find Triptolemus - who is not thrilled with their presence. Demeter - his mistress - and her daughter are distraught by Perseus' missing status - and he blames Annabeth and Nico for it.

Annabeth tries to persuade him - after all, they have Jason on board, and he is blessed by Ceres. Triptolemus - a very greek god - is not swayed.

"Your trickster words shall not fool me, daughter of Athena."

That's how Annabeth became a rosemary bush - good for memory and brainpower. Nico, when he tried to fight back, became a corn crop.

Mars is whispering in Frank's mind - he is not really fond of his father but uses his help to kill the evil Egyptian cows and get a python for the god's chariot.

He can't let Hazel die. He can't see the light go off her eyes - to see the same pain reflected in Leo's eyes. But Frank is so using Nico's stunt as a corn plant as blackmail material later. Not with Annabeth thought - she would stab him.

Triptolemus, pleased, turns Nico and Annabeth back to human and heals Hazel. Then, he tells them they have to eat barley cakes - so they can survive the poison needed to enter the house of the dead.

Proceeding south down the Adriatic toward Greece, a journey that should take about half a day, the crew of the Argo II is first accosted in Koper - a city on the coast of Slovenia - by four monocerus in the middle of the night.

Monocerus, in Leo's very succinct explanation, are "evil unicorns with big feet that can't fly and shouldn't be in a flying ship".

Whoever, the monsters apparently don't care where they should or not be - and Annabeth - still reeling for her time as rosemary - takes two of them out, keeping the horns as a prize. Nico takes one, who is so beat that leaves nothing, and Malcolm kills one with a handgun.

It's not the most practical weapon, because celestial bronze is not that easy to fabricate/find/obtain - so to use it in bullets that will explode and render it unusable it's kind of a desperate - but it's the first thing he could get - Malcolm's double tessen was being repaired by Leo.

Because yes - not only was the twenty years old able to fight with normal blades, he also fights with freaking fans made of iron.

After the run-in with the evil unicorns - Annabeth looks really cool covered in gold blood and curved silver horns in her hands - they proceed across Croatia.

It goes well for about thirty minutes - in Zadar, they cross paths with Sciron. Sciron is a bandit and outlaw, who - for some reason, is assisted by a giant predatory sea turtle.

While Hazel tricks him into throwing himself off the cliff using her new-discovered Mist, Jason talks to the turtle. It says its name is Chelone - that it's the turtle who took Aphrodite Ourania from the depths of the sea to the shores of Cythera - when she was still young, with remains of other goddesses in her anima - Innana and Ishtar.

He convinces the turtle to stop killing people - mainly by saying that he should hunt elsewhere, deeper onto the sea. It may become a problem for his father, but Jason has bigger issues right now.

They go to sleep, and Hazel dreams. She expects any god to come - but who comes to her is none other than Pluto and his wife, Proserpina.

Proserpina is shrouded in black, and her eyes are not green - but yellowish, like dead leaves. She talks - and tells Hazel that the Doors of Death are in the bottom of the Necromanteion - her powers over metal energy would guide her - and will be guarded by Pasiphae, vengeful of Pluto - and, by default, Perseus - for the lack of punishment for Minos.

Her husband is a silent presence by her side. He is not in mourning... probably. It's difficult to tell, as he is always in black. But his eyes hold a weight easy for Hazel to understand - he just lost a son to the abyss. No matter that Perseus might be alive - he wouldn't get back whole and safe.

Proserpina ends her dream by telling her to wake up Piper - the goddess is putting all her strength to send a vision of Perseus to Katoptris - they need one much more than her, seeing that they are able to interfere.

What Piper sees don't tell them a lot - Perseus seems mostly okay, with some sort of companion that Nico says it might be Iapetus, a brand new scar over his face and a bad limp.

It's the last they'll see of him until their eventual meeting face to face, but it gives them hope.

Annabeth herself has a dream - a dream that the Romans give the statue to the greeks. She sends an iris message to Rachel - so she can meet personally with Reyna.

Reyna, on the other side of the world, mounts her pegasus, Scipio, and leaves. Not only her co-praetor is in freaking Tartarus, but they are on the verge of two simultaneous wars. They need peace.

As soon as she is out of the roman range, however, she sends an iris message to Jason - telling him to go to their hero's place of rest - she had a vision from Mars. That she will meet them in Greece. Jason tells Leo to set course for Split, in Croatia. There's a roman scepter there.

Of all of them, the most capacitated for this mission are Frank and Jason, who are both educated Romans, and Nico, who can fly - a very good power to have in unstable ruins.

They're confronted by Favonious, who takes them to his master, Cupid, in Dalmatia. Nothing good can come of talking to the personification of love - such an old concept that the god has been reborn twice.

"Well, well, well"

"What do we have here?"

Jason falls onto the ground - "You think you found true love, haven't you? But alas, I was where you last expected me" - and he hates love, for that single moment.

"I shall give you what you want, Romans, if each of you is able to tell me - who do you love the most?"

Nico trembles - guilt is a difficult pill to swallow - and Frank visibly wants to bolt out of there.

"Oh, are you afraid? But there's no hiding in the face of true love"

Jason - always the brave one - gives a look at Frank. His friend never met the greeks. He might hate Jason after this.

But they need this scepter.

"Perseus Jackson"

Two heads whips in his direction - one unbelievingly, and the other distressed.

"Ah, love crafted in dreams - the perfect mix between me and my wife. Tell me, Jason Grace, was it bad when he looked upon you and saw naught but a myth?"

A laugh creeps upon Jason's spine, and he turns around. His blade hits something hard, and he is on the floor again.

"Such luck, to be able to even graze love. Perhaps yours is the purest of all - not yet tainted by failures and mistakes. On that note, why don't you go next, Nico di Angelo?"

Nico shivers - he... they have no time for that. That is unnecessary drama - to cause unnecessary problems.

A memory rushes to the front of Jason's mind - that quick chat with Reyna in Nova Roma. "The blond girl, Di Angelo"

Nico loves Perseus. It rushes to Jason now - the way that the younger boy stared adoringly at the son of Hades. The drunkness of his lovesick gaze. The despair when Perseus fell.

"Tell them Nico di Angelo" Cupid prompts "Tell them all about your guilt, your mistakes, the way you let him down, again and again, and again."

Nico floats a little off the ground. It's years of pain and sorrow that won't bring Perseus back.

"Will you fly off yet again, in the face of rivalry? Will you be my next servant - just like Favonious, consumed by jealousy, Nico di Angelo?"

Jason sees the memories. Nico screaming at Perseus. Grover reluctantly telling him about their adventures. The way he betrayed Percy - and a dozen more scenes he never saw from Nico's perspective, only Percy's, that made him unable to speak.

"It's okay Nico... I.... I get it."

It's painful to utter these words - it's almost like he is giving up Perseus. But they have a war to get through - and then, when the other demigod is back, they can figure this out.

"P-Perseus Jackson"

And then it's Frank's turn. But Frank is as pale as a ghost - he seems to be close to vomiting.

"It's a costly thing isn't it, looking at the true face of love. Now it's the turn of the brave son of Mars. Will you tell your friends easily, or shall you be a coward like the son of Zeus?"

Frank doesn't talk. Jason doesn't understand why - it's Hazel, isn't it? Is it because of Nico? He mentions talking to the son of Zeus, but Di Angelo doesn't look at him - the Cupid knew very well how to play his game.

"Come on. Tell them - tell them of whom you think before you sleep and who dominates your first thoughts every morning."

"You don't scare me"

"Oh, I scare you very, very much. Face me. Be honest."

"H-Hazel. Levesque."

"That's just half my question, little half-blood. If you want to lead the roman legions, you must answer it fully."

"I love H-Hazel. She is the one I think before I sleep and when I wake up."

"Still hiding. You're not strong enough, Frank Zhang."

Frank tries to charge at the wind, but it just mocks him. It's weird seeing Frank crying - it looks like the world is crumbling at his feet.

Jason, yet again, doesn't understand. Nico is also confused - he looks between the Romans as if he never saw any of them before. But then it dawns on the son of Zeus.

"Not only my sister. That's why you keep gazing at them, isn't it?"

All the fighting and denial leave Frank at once. His sword clangs in the ground.

"I love both Hazel and Leo. Together." He spits out, still trembling. "That's the truth. Are you happy now?"

"I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy. It can make you incredibly sad, sometimes. But you have faced it now. It's the only true way to conquer me."

Cupid appears - in a flash of white wings. It might be the god Jason hates the most - his eyes seem to penetrate his very soul. There's a scepter in his hand.

"Only a true child of Mars Ultor can yield it. It's your destiny, Frank Zhang."

Then he promptly disappears. The demigods look at each other - there's a flurry of emotions deep inside their chests. Frank looked at both of them, waiting for an attack, or for them to start fighting.

"No one has to know" He starts "I'm s-so-..."

He doesn't end. There are copious tears rolling through his face - his cheeks are a deep shade of red. A sob escapes his throat.

"P-please, p-pleased-don't t-te-tell anyone." Frank sobs, and it's such a jarring sight that both Nico and Jason rally to reassure him, leaving their own issues aside.

"There's nothing wrong with loving two people at once. No one will have a problem with it, Frank - fuck, this isn't Nova Roma. Most of us are greek."

"Hazel would hate me though. This is unnatural- I- I can't."

"You don't know that. Hazel loves you, Frank"

But the son of Mars just keeps crying until they both promise not to tell another soul what they saw. It's enough for the weird atmosphere to return.

Midway in the trek back to the ship - a six-hour walk - Nico is too riled up to safely fly with two people and none of them being too fond of air right now - Frank summons enough power to ask the question.

"So... uh... hm... Perseus?... like, uh, I can see the appeal-... but... both?... forget I asked, just....uh oh, sorry."

Jason and Nico pointedly avoid looking at each other. It's very bizarre - Jason knows a lot about Perseus, but now he knows Perseus also from Nico's perspective - and this is all messy.

They go back to the ship, relay to Annabeth that they got the scepter, and immediately go back to their cabins - to cry, to scream, to think.

It's been a day and a half - and they're still eleven hours off Epirus. Leo is pissed - because not only their three heavy-hitters are pissed at something and won't communicate, and they're of course.

Emerging from the infirmary for something other than to eat and mend people is finally Will - at least. He takes patrol in place of Nico - the boy quietly mumbled at his friend that they had a run-in with Cupid. Will can imagine how that went.

He doesn't have a clue about Frank - but Jason and Nico? They have the same long-lasting crush on Perseus - everyone on board knows that. Except, apparently, for each other. And Perseus - because his mentor/kind of brother/bother figure is a dumbass.

When they're passing through the coast of Albany, they're attacked by Khione - who is still very pissed her ex-lover's son doesn't want to spend eternity frozen with her. Leo ends up being sent away - for the distress of both Hazel and Frank and the anger of his best friends, Piper and Jason.

Piper ends up stabbing Khione - while Frank transforms into the giant dragon and burns her - making her unable to freeze them. Eventually, she runs away.

Leo, however, wakes up on an island. There's a sad girl at his side - she is using a modern blue dress, and there's a crown of black flowers upon her head.

"You were not the one I was expecting."

The son of Hephaestus wants to scream. Well, he didn't want to be whatever here is either! But her face is so sad - her gaze down to her bare feet. She seemed to be crying. He settles for asking who is her.

"I... I am sorry. My name is Calypso. This is Ogygia."

It startles him. Mainly because he has heard this name before around camp - wasn't she supposed to be freed?

"What happened to you?"

The immortal girl relays her tale - how she got freed for a year, and then the war started. The gods - Zeus - didn't trust her not to turn against them. So they locked her up - she was not the only one. Leto, Themis, Rhea - good titans or their offspring. Locked away.

She, after a year of freedom that Perseus got her, was back into her old shackles. Calypso is waiting for him for months now - but she thinks he forgot her.

So Leo tells her what happened - the bits he knows anyway. Juno/Hera, Nova Roma, the mission. Calypso seems calmer. They stay together for a while - friends it seems.

Calypso tells him about her year - about how she wanted to explore the world. She tells him she wanted to join Artemis' hunt - but, courtesy of Odysseys, she is no maiden.

He tells her about Hazel and Frank, Perseus, and the love hexagons he doesn't even know he is in - omitting the part that he is now in Tartarus. They talk about Festus - Calypso tells him about how his father is good to hear - how he came to visit, sometimes.

A week passes, maybe a week and a half. Leo vows to take Calypso off the island once the war ends, and she believes - once, a hero as brave as Leo made her the same promise, and stuck with it through the end.

In Cancun, Africa, Jason and Nico are having daily audiences with Auster, the Roman god of the south wind, in connection with the Seven being able to proceed on their way to Epirus - seeing that their ship is all broken and they have no Leo.

Auster is indolent and seems increasingly disinclined to cooperate with Jason and Nico: he dislikes the son of Zeus, and the wind never had a good relationship with the sea. Annabeth also tries her hand at it - but it's rebuffed at every turn. Piper is prohibited from entering the palace because of her magic voice.

Jason and Nico - even though they aren't speaking to each other - have for a long time admitted they don't fit completely at either camp. Jason is still too militar for CHB. Nico is too old for CHB. Both are too free with their personal lives for Nova Roma.

Auster agrees to meet with them and tells them to commit to one side - greek or roman. They deny it - they're both. The gods are both, they have been thrust in a war of both sides, they commune with gods on both aspects and they ask them to run errands for both pantheons. They have the right to be both.

Auster is not happy with this - mainly because he believes they should keep the sides separated. But it's the first time Nico and Jason agree on something - and they fight together for it. No god has the right to define those petty things when the demigods are fighting their war.

Auster merges with his greek counterpart Notus - an amalgamation of both his carefree and his militar side - and sends The Seven on their way when coerced by the threat of a hurricane and a typhoon.

He sends them to Valletta, Malta, where they find the Argo II fully repaired and in the harbor. In the port, on a small cafe, there's Leo - sitting and raging internally against the gods, who once again, fucked up something.

They trade stories, and Leo just rages more. He isn't sure how Perseus didn't ally himself with Kronos in the first war if that was the bullshit he had to deal with every day.

First Khione, then Zeus locking Calypso up, then this Notus guy - they are a week and a half late. Is Perseus still alive after nineteen days in the Pit? Is he sane? Did he tried to get out - and they weren't there?

It's with a shocking gasp from Annabeth that they realize that Perseus's birthday is in three days. They have been traveling together for thirty-seven days now - and they have to get Perseus out of Tartarus before the 18th, at least. Is the minimum.

It takes them a day to get to Epirus. There are enough monsters in their way to start a menagerie - Gaea is actively trying to stall them, so there must be a reason. Perseus might be alive.

Arriving at the Necromanteion, which they learn is just a very fancy name for catacombs, Hazel, Frank, Leo, Annabeth, Will, and Piper descend into the ruins, leaving Nico and Jason - who are both completely useless under the earth - behind with Malcolm - who, since Arachne, is pretty much claustrophobic.

They eat the barley cakes to protect themselves against the toxic potion they must drink in order to enter the temple. It's difficult to swallow poison - it burns as it goes down.

The mist tries to confuse them at every turn - Hazel diverts it. Her power over metal energy guides them - she can feel the basis of the building, way down where they are.

Katoptris burns in Piper's hand. It shows her Perseus' face - he looks cadaveric, shrouded in death. Sometimes he flickers, like a ghost - but he is alive, and heading to the Doors just like they are.

It's enough to spur them forward. Perseus is doing the same journey - from a much difficult side. They will meet in the middle.

Earthquakes strike the caverns, making part of the floor collapse. In a side, Piper and Will, surrounded by monsters in all sides. In the other, Frank, Leo, Hazel and Annabeth. The son of Mars doesn't think twice - the scepter.

He uses the Scepter of Diocletian to summon ghostly Roman soldiers, and as a Legatus Legionis, he does have the power to command all of them. It would be more controlled if he was Praetor, but the actual Praetor is Perseus, and so, in his absence, Frank will have to do.

The tunnel collapses. Hazel. Leo. They might be dead - but Frank can't panic right now. They are alive. They will protect each other, they have Annabeth Chase with them. Hazel controls the mist - everything will be just fine.

Anger grew in his chest. Those are his friends, his... his loved ones. This freaking ruin don't get to kill them before Frank summons enough courage to submit himself to the ridiculousness of telling them.

Hazel wants to cry - they left Frank behind. He might be dead - they might be all dead. Leo isn't much better. For all that Zhang seems to hate him, his infatuation with the Canadian never disappeared.

Annabeth however, is practical. She tells them Frank will be fine - the guy can transform into a dragon. Or a chimera. Probably a poisonous one, after the stunt in Venice. He has an army - it's okay.

Pasiphae is a bitch. Leo hates the woman - she reminds him of Aunt Rosa. Or Juno. Or Lady Muddy herself. He and Annabeth let Hazel do the majority of the talking - but both of them bristle as the Doors shake.

An unauthorized presence. Perseus actually did it - they have twelve minutes, in accord to Annabeth - who Leo knows better than to doubt - to open the Doors. Or he is dead, lost forever.

"It's a pity Gaea needs a son of the Earth and a daughter of the Sea... But none of you are children of the Underworld or the ocean, are you? Not even the acolyte of Trivia."

Everything indicates that she'll open the door herself - but Annabeth can't risk she whisking Perseus away to Gaea before they can reach him. So she sneaks past with her cap while they fight.

Pasiphae goes down to Hazel's illusions. Annabeth opens the Doors, before cutting the chains as Hazel and Leo distract Clytius. Perseus stumbles out, a giant tiger in his heels.

Leo didn't think he would ever see a harsher picture. The tall boy was still muscular - but gaunt as if he hadn't eaten since the fall. There were scars everywhere.

He couldn't look more - Clytius is threatening Perseus, but both Annabeth and the tiger stay in his way. Trivia appears - but they aren't truly winning until Piper, Will, and Frank are able to reach them through Hazel's magic.

Will goes immediately to Perseus' side - there's panic in his eyes. Leo can't see much this far - he hopes the son of Hades isn't dead. Piper and Frank fight alongside them. Annabeth is still hovering protectively over her best friend's prone body.

There's not much need for help - between Hazel and Trivia, the bulk of Clytius powers are unusable. The shared power of Piper (love is never where you expect it), Frank (and his undead soldiers), a very angry Annabeth, and Leo is just overkill.

They win. Will is feeding Perseus ambrosia - there's something really wrong because there are tear tracks in the blonde's face. Leo comes closer - their friends follow.

Perseus is destroyed. He looks like he has been through hell - there's a scar crossing his face and his eyes are sunken in. But that's not where it stops.

Leo's gaze goes down, to the ragged clothes that are barely recognizable - the sweatpants he was convinced to wear to go underground, the once-green sweater - and sees what is missing.

Where Perseus' leg once was, there's a metal one. The boy is curled in the fetal position - his metal leg sticks out like a sore thumb, and it looks like he might cry if he wasn't so dehydrated. The tiger nudges its head against the boy's leg and growls at them, but it doesn't attack.

"I... I can't touch him. I touched him and he started panicking... I... We have to take him back to the ship. He is stable, but..."

Frank picks up Perseus in a bride-carry - a month ago, he wouldn't be able to do it. But now, he is stronger - and Perseus must weight ninety pounds wet.

The tiger follows - when they cross to the daylight, they can see it's not a normal tiger. Annabeth - with a distraught look in her face - tells them it's a skeleton tiger. Probably a saber-tooth.

They go back on board - Piper goes up to call Nico, so he can fly Perseus into the ship. He does, but the expression in his face is so crushing Leo almost wishes they had delayed it by destroying property and landing the ship on the street.

The mood of the ship is yet again somber. No one wants to leave the infirmary - but Will forces them to rotate, so as to not overwhelm Perseus. Hypocrite - he is living in there.

Leo, Malcolm, and Piper - the least close to Percy, even though they are friends - let the others take the bulk of the shifts. Annabeth, Nico, and Jason almost get into blows about it - she wins on the fact that she knows Perseus longer.

It's difficult to IM both Rachel - who is a minute away from depression since he fell - and Lady Persephone. It's even harder to tell Sally - they leave the task to Annabeth.

They harbor for two days, waiting for Reyna. She appears from the sky during dinnertime - her horse has to be euthanized almost immediately after a run with the spirit mountains.

They talk - and end up deciding that she will take the statue back to Camp with Malcolm, the most resourceful out of them. Percy would be the logical solution - taking him out of Gaea's reach - but the son of Hades would probably be unable to shadow travel so soon.

While this happens, the others will set course to Athens - to stop Gaea and destroy the Giants. For now, they eat.

Midway through their meal, Will comes into the board - everyone knows what it means. Perseus is awake - on his birthday to boot. They take their food to the infirmary - to see the boy looking at the ceiling.

He gives them a faint smile, but no one misses the way he curls into himself any time there's someone a little too close. Perseus relays his tale - it's heavily edited, Annabeth can tell.

But he tells them about the leg - but not how he lost it - about the tiger - the name is Small Bob, but he doesn't talk about Bob - and about the firewater - but not how he got the injuries.

Small Bob never leaves Perseus's side. The demigod insists that he wants to go outside - he ate enough ambrosia and drank enough nectar that even some of his scars are gone. Not the one in his face though. Will let him go - but Annabeth thinks that he just asked out of courtesy.

He doesn't have green eyes anymore - they darkened to a point they can't distinguish his pupil. They observe as he sits calmly in the deck, metal leg sticking out, and strokes the head of the tiger, who is acting more or less like a giant house cat.

None of them miss the tracks of tears across his face, or the look he gives the night sky - it's bittersweet.

"Bob says hello"

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four Best Night Imaginative and prescient (Rifle) Scopes

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Clothes.....

One of the most alien aspects of cycling is the clothes. There is literally an industry built around cycling clothes and gear and it aint like stuff for other sports. Yes it is colourful and tight and stretchy and actually complicated.

I do road cycling but I started as a commuter, and even for that I had to gear up. You cannot ride to an office in office clothes.

If you walk into a shop as a total newby you may walk out with what you need, or just decide to take up walking and avoid the fuss.

Cycling clothes are mostly like many other types of active wear but the requirements are more severe and specific. I do not know how long a yoga class runs, but you may be able to wear cotton and survive. On a bike cotton is to be avoided at all costs. You do not know what pain is until you get a rash on your rear from cotton underwear. Who knew?

Cutting to the facts you need what is called technical fabric. Usually it is synthetic like polyester microfiber, but wool works very well too. But as you have to wash it a lot the synthetics are easier to live with.

For your torso and legs and head you may borrow from running gear. For your rear you need specific cycling shorts. All such shorts have what is called a chamois (shammy) that can be a piece of french mountain goat skin but more usually a funky pad of mysterious foam stuff sewn into the bottom. That pad works with your saddle to keep you comfortable and able to go on for hours. That garment must be worn without underwear as direct skin contact is essential to avoid chafing. (That really hurts).

Bike shorts have been a real challenge for me and I know a few people who have a hard time with fit. I have tried several brands with varying degrees of satisfaction. For guys like me who have chunky legs a short proportioned for average legs is too skinny. Typically there is a lot of stretch, but that reduces the lifespan of the garment. I know a couple of guys who shop in women’s sizes as they seem to allow larger legs in proportion.

There are two types of bike shorts, common, and bib style. The bib style has farmer overall type straps that keep things in place. The common or non-bib style are just shorts. Both types have chamois, but pockets are rare. Over the years I have only used bib shorts.

I have used generic “house” brand shorts from our local sporting co-op as well as big international brands.

I have used:

Castelli

Pearl Izumi

Cannondale

Sugoi

Louis Garneau

MEC

For fit I really like Sugoi with Pearl Izumi a close second. BUT. I consider myself lucky to get a single riding season out of them. I do not know if it is the design, or the fabric, cuz after a summer stitching starts to tear and fabric lose its stretch.

I have a pair of Castelli shorts that fit OK and I am about to start my third season with no significant wear and tear.

For guys, I know that if you take L in North America you need XL or even XXL in European cuts. I am XXL in my shorts and XL in my jersey.

Bike jerseys are cut with very low backs to accommodate the shape your body assumes when riding. They also have pockets on the lower back that you can reach while riding. Those can hold phones, snacks, even water bottles. I have hauled spare jackets, my phone and a couple of bottles stuffed into those pockets. Very handy.

(Keep your phone in a watertight thing (even a sandwich bag) to avoid destroying it with sweat)

I have a large collection of bike jerseys. Some are starting to fade in the sun, but are standing up well otherwise. Probably because I have so many to use.

The shorts and a jersey are all you need for summer hot weather or for indoor spinning. Girls will need sports bras about which I know only that they exist.

Aside from those basics, jackets for rain are appreciated when they are needed. I have several of two generic types. One type is very thin and light and pocket stuffable which works well for light rain and also cool wind protection. The second is heavier fabric and is good for heavy rain.

In cooler weather additional layers are good all being technical fabric.

My winter gear includes all the above, with two layers under a jersey and a heavy jacket over all and full leg tights over my legs and shorts. I also have boot covers over my bike shoes.

You see it gets complicated.

But If you want to get into this you can leave a shop with just shorts and a jersey and be ready to start this adventure. Oh please use a real shop for your first order. If it doesn’t fit from an online store you are SOL.

Bike shoes are a world unto themselves. So later then.

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RidgeClan

So here is a summary about the first Alpine Clan, RidgeClan! It’s a long post, so I’ll put it under a readmore.

Territory

RidgeClan's territory consists of the mountain tops. It is bordered in the north and west by higher mountains, in the south by a steep cliff under which LakeClan lives, and in the east by the forest of ForestClan, which is only accessible by a small ridge. Here is also the entrance to Stonecliff the gathering place of the cats. There is snow throughout the whole year there, except in Greenfields, where the snow melts in late spring and comes back early autumn. They are named for the many ridges, dangerous to other cats but RidgeClan cats have such a good balance and experience with those that they don't have a problem. Due to there being snow throughout most of the year, the RidgeClan warriors have thick fur to keep them warm at all times. There is one brook which is frozen over most of the time, called Icebrook, which leads to Rockfall, a waterfall that goes over the cliff at the edge of Greenfields down to LakeClan territory. Even when it is not frozen, the cats will not use Icebrook to fish or swim. At the far edge of their territory there is a cottage, where people will sometimes stay when they go through a walk in the mountains. Usually the cats are not bothered by these humans, as they have good hiding skills. There are several caves scattered throughout the mountains, where the ibex and chamois will sometimes stay. One of those is their camp, protected from enemies and the weather by a large rock in front of the entrance with only a space at the side where the cats can slip through.

Camp

The RidgeClan camp is a bit further into the cave. Due to the lack of plants in that area, there isn't much moss to make nests with, so they instead sleep on the hard ground. They do not mind, as that has been the way it is since they were kits. The entrance of the cave leads up to two rooms, the smallest one of which is used by the queens and their kits, the other by the rest of the Clan. Besides that all different ranks sleep together in one big pile to keep warm. In the entrance of the cave they spend their daily lives when they're not out in the territory. There are several boulders attached to the walls, and the highest is used by the leader to speak to the Clan. This one is called Tall Rock.

Culture and personalities

Due to their harsh living environment, these cats highly praise survival skills, especially hunting skills. Agility and balance is also important here, considering the territory has many dangerous cliffs and ridges a cat could fall down from. They also have a very strong bond with each other due to them relying so much on each other, though they are oftentimes hostile to others. They do not have to worry often about being attacked; their territory is so dangerous for other cats that they hardly dare to come up there. They also don't meet many different other animals, since not many want to get into the snowy colds, except for the bats and goats that live in the caves, as well as some birds and hares. These cats are very practical, as shown in their suffix system which uses body parts, instead of the more metaphorical systems of the others.

Looks

The white gene runs in this Clan, which is useful during their hunts in the snow, as their coats make it harder to see them. That is also why white cats are seen as very beautiful. Dilute cats also appear a lot here. Darker cats are seen as the least pretty of all, mostly because they are very easily seen in the snow, though they are not seen as ugly, since those cats, too, have their strengths. They are treasured because of their skillful hunting in the summer, as Greenfield prey is fatter and tastier than prey from the snow.

These cats are also very lean, with strong but thin legs and triangular faces. They have thick coats to protect them from the cold.

Hunting

The cats are experts in hunting in the snow. The white cats and most dilute cats are fine here since their fur doesn't stand out against the snow or the rocks, but cats who do stand out will often cover their bodies with snow. Due to the risk of this they are not able to do this often, and so these cats, unless they are exceptionally good at hunting, are not often sent out in the winter. In the summer, however, they will hunt in Greenfields, where they bring back the juiciest pieces of prey, and as such, those dark-furred cats are also highly valued in the Clan. Due to the prey being scarce there they don't waste energy when they hunt in the snow and are likely to lay in wait in front of a den, until its inhabitant comes out. They have also learnt the technique from the foxes, where they listen for prey under the snow and then dive in. Sometimes, when they are lucky, the cats may come across a carcass of a kill made by a lynx, or perhaps a wolf, and of course they won't hesitate to eat that, even risking their lives in order to snatch a piece of meat. These cats are smart, though, and will often lay in wait until the other predator abandons their kill, even for a moment. They are especially able to snatch from wolves, using their skills at climbing to do so. In Greenfields the prey is more flourishing, and here they either hunt through method of stalking through the high grass, or the same sort of method they use in the snow, where they lay in wait for the prey to come out of their dens.

#ridgeclan #alpine clans #lynxblossom #lynx speaks #worldbuilding #warriors #warrior cats #wc #long post #readmore

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The Best Ice Cream Shops In Austin

If you’re anything like us, those cool, double-digit days probably feel like a distant memory right about now. Fortunately, one of the best ways to cool down is also one of the tastiest (no, we’re not suggesting you drink the water at Barton Springs). Austin is home to some great frozen desserts. From gelato and avocado-based versions, to fully-loaded dessert tacos, here are some of the best places around town to get ice cream.

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Avocados are magic - they’re good on toast, make the best margaritas, and they play the starring role in guacamole (what’s guacamole without avocados - salsa?). And at Luv Fats, avocado is also the solution to an ice cream that’s dairy-free, vegan, and super smooth (with an assist from coconut milk). Flavors change often, but recent ones include butter pecan, rosemary chai, sourdough toast with peach jam, and lavender cookies and cream. It’s available by the pint at The Bee Grocery in East Austin, or you can buy scoops and pints at the downtown farmers market on Saturdays and the Mueller market on Sundays. They also participate in other pop-ups and events, so do check them out on Instagram.

Tropical Dreams Hawaiian Ice Cream $$$$ 2001 Guadalupe St. Suite A

Tropical Dreams has been making ice cream for over 25 years, but you’ve probably never heard of them since their new location on The Drag is their first one outside of Hawaii. They use a high-butterfat mix to make their ice cream, resulting in a really rich, creamy texture. Besides, this is the closest most of us are getting to traveling to Hawaii at any point in the near future.

Raphael Brion Sweet Ritual $$$$ 4631 Airport Blvd

We like the vegan ice cream at Sweet Ritual on Airport Blvd just fine - especially the very good Death Metal by Chocolate (with a double chocolate sunflower seed butter base and gluten-free chocolate cookies). But our favorite frozen desserts to get here are the shakes, made with their coconut and soy-vanilla soft serve. Most of the sauces and flavors are homemade, including chocolate, peanut butter, and salted caramel. We like to get the strawberry shake with chopped peanuts for a PB&J-adjacent dessert.

Nicolai McCrary Taco Sweets $$$$ 5000 Burnet Rd

Ice cream tacos are the perfect answer to the question, “How can I fit more tacos into my life?” At the trailer Taco Sweets, you can build your own if you’re feeling up to it, and finally live out your childhood dream of building a waffle-cone taco with strawberry ice cream, Cap’n Crunch cereal, and Sour Patch Kids. We usually go with one of their pre-vetted combos, like the S’more Lovin’ taco with vanilla ice cream, chocolate chips, marshmallows, crumbled graham crackers, and chocolate syrup. They’re located in a small food trailer park near Burnet and Hancock for takeout and delivery, with plenty of picnic tables in the area.

Dai Due $ $ $ $ American , Sandwiches in Cherrywood $$$$ 2406 Manor Rd

Dai Due, the Manor Road butcher shop and restaurant, might not be the first place you think of when you’re looking for ice cream. It’s probably not the second or third place either, for that matter. But the next time you’re placing your online order for wild boar lettuce wraps or four pounds of steak, throw in a pint or two of ice cream. It’s all churned in-house. Flavors vary based on what’s in season, but you can expect to find local, seasonal flavors like Texas peach buttermilk, or goat cheese and blueberry.

Raphael Brion Dipdipdip Ice Cream $$$$ 7301 Burnet Rd

While Dipdipdip’s hot pot service may be temporarily on pause (they’re doing a sandwich pop-up right now), the ice cream stand they opened up outside of their restaurant is still going stronger than ever. The menu features a rotating ice cream taco with a pan-fried brioche shell and a daily flavor, as well as shakes and ice cream flavors by the pint, including ones like a super-creamy yuzu mascarpone (with strawberries and snickerdoodle cookies that we liked a lot. They’re located near Burnet and West Anderson Lane.

Mandola's Italian Market $$$$ 4700 W Guadalupe St #12

Mandola’s operates with four locations across Austin as equal-parts Italian marketplace and restaurant. So it’s a great place to grab some imported olive oil and cheese with your take-home bowl of gnocchi. They also sell homemade Italian-style gelato by the pint or quart. Flavors are more classic - chocolate, lemon, berry, etc…but you’re probably not coming here for some kind of caramel-bacon-gummy bear drizzle anyway.

Raphael Brion Fresa's Chicken al Carbon $ $ $ $ Tacos , Mexican in Downtown Austin $$$$ 915 N Lamar Blvd

The Mexican/Tex-Mex spot Fresa’s has got a lot of things going for it - the 9th St and Lamar drive-thru is extremely convenient, and the South First location has a spacious patio. The food’s good too, but getting any meal there without the excellent ice cream would be a serious mistake. The flavors change regularly, and they’re simple and well-executed (like orange creamsicle or cookies and cream), or sometimes they’re fun and innovative (like strawberry cheesecake or rice krispies). At both locations you can get “tiny” servings and pints to go, as well as scoops at South First, dine-in only (sometimes with a cookie).

Amy's Ice Creams $$$$ 1012 W 6th St

You already know about Amy’s, we don’t really need to tell you more. Hundreds of flavors in rotation, more locations in Austin than we have fingers. You’re probably within a block of one right now.

East Austin Nicolai McCrary Gelateria Gemelli $$$$ 1009 E 6th St

While Austin’s East Side seems to have no shortage of ice cream and gelato, Gelateria Gemelli consistently comes out as one of our favorites. There are some great classic flavors, like lemon curd and pistachio, as well as less-common ones like miso vanilla. They also double as a coffee shop, which means you can turn any of these into a delicious affogato for a perfect, late-afternoon pick-me-up.

Dolce Bacio $$$$ 1606 E 6th St

Staring down the menu at Dolce Bacio will make you feel like you’re in a small Italian coffee shop, with the smell of fresh cream in the air and Nessun Dorma playing softly in the background. That is, until you realize you’re in a food truck park in East Austin and it’s 110 degrees out. The menu consists mostly of gelato and sorbet - all made in-house - but they also have tiramisu made with fresh mascarpone cheese, cannoli, and affogatos.

Nicolai McCrary Prohibition Creamery $$$$ 1407 E 7th St

Equal parts cocktail bar and ice cream shop, Prohibition is that perfect after-dinner spot when you’re not sure if you want to end the night with a drink, dessert, or both. The flavors are constantly changing out with local, seasonal ingredients, like prickly pear mezcal sorbet or pecan buttered rum. And of course, there are just as many flavors without alcohol - both vegan and dairy-based - because not everything has to be boozy to be refreshing on a hot summer afternoon.

Roger Ho Launderette $ $ $ $ American , Italian in Holly $$$$ 2115 Holly St

It’s not exactly an ice cream shop, but we felt it would be a disservice to dessert-based sandwiches everywhere to not mention the birthday cake ice cream sandwich from Launderette. It’s simple, it’s covered in sprinkles, and it’ll make you feel like it’s your birthday. This seems like an easy win right now, so give a try or two or three. They also sell the ice cream sandwiches in six-packs that come in a mini foam cooler.

Nicolai McCrary Lou’s $$$$ 1900 E Cesar Chavez St

Most of the food at Lou’s is rotisserie-based - with chicken, sirloin, and cauliflower - but if you’re looking for a sweet finish to your meal, they make some really nice frozen desserts. The hand-spun milkshakes are tasty (try the horchata flavor), but we usually go with their classic vanilla custard and add some brandy cherries.

Nicolai McCrary Hay Elotes $$$$ 2214 E 7th St

You can get all kinds of snacks and desserts at Hay Elotes, from fruit cups and chamoy apples to, well, elotes. Of course, there’s also a full selection of ice creams and sorbets. But our favorite dessert just might be the Mango Hill - a seemingly bottomless cup of mango sorbet studded with fresh strawberries and topped with strawberry syrup and chile limón powder. It’s refreshing enough to make you forget that you just sweat through your second shirt of the day. They’re located near Webberville and East 7th and are currently open for takeout and delivery.

South Austin Nicolai McCrary Sandy's Hamburgers $ $ $ $ American , Burgers in Bouldin $$$$ 603 Barton Springs Rd

It’s almost impossible to make a list of ice cream spots in Austin without mentioning Sandy’s. They’ve been around for over 70 years, and in that time not a lot has changed on their menu. After you’ve taken down one of their classic burgers, make sure to get a vanilla, chocolate, or mixed frozen custard to really get the full Sandy’s experience. Bonus points if you can make it out of the parking lot before it melts all over your hands.

Cannone Gelato $$$$ 1720 Barton Springs Rd

Cannone is located on Barton Springs Rd, right near Zilker, making it the perfect spot for a post-park cool down. The owner started off with a gelato shop in Monaco before opening up this small, mobile gelato shop in Austin a few years ago. All of the gelato is made daily, and many with imported ingredients like Italian pistachios or hazelnut paste.

Nicolai McCrary Cow Tipping Creamery $$$$ 4715 S Lamar Blvd

At Cow Tipping Creamery, they like to combine less-conventional toppings with rich, dairy-based soft serve. So you can expect to see things like funfetti cake chunks, blue sugar crystals, and birthday cake crumbs on top of your vanilla or chocolate base. The result is a rich, creamy dessert that looks almost as good as it tastes. They have a bunch of pre-vetted flavor combos, or “Stackers,” but our favorite is the NOLA that comes topped with bananas foster bread pudding, rummy caramel sauce, honey-dusted pecans, and whipped cream. There’s also an additional soft serve flavor and Stacker special each week.

Manolis Ice Cream Pastries & Cakes $$$$ 603 W Live Oak St

Manolis sells homemade ice cream, paletas, shakes, Italian ice and pastries out of a trailer just off South 1st. The ice cream flavors range from classics, like vanilla or strawberry, to less common fruits like soursop and lulo. All of the ice creams can be made into shakes. And since they also sell espresso, you can turn them into an affogato.

Nicolai McCrary Dolce Neve $$$$ 1713 S 1st St

The first time we went to Dolce Neve and asked a question about their mint gelato, the folks behind the counter pulled out a potted spearmint plant from a top hat (OK there may have been a door involved) and told us “this plant right here is where all of the natural mint flavor comes from.” That was when we realized just how committed they were to fresh, seasonal, and (very) local ingredients. And it shows - they consistently make some of the best gelato in town. Their flavors rotate out pretty often, but if you happen to see their mascarpone and matcha, do yourself a favor and order it ASAP.

Thai Fresh $ $ $ $ Thai in Bouldin $$$$ 909 W Mary St

All of the ice cream at Thai Fresh is vegan and gluten-free, which in this case means a rich, coconut milk base. The flavors here range from Texas favorites like local peach or fig, to the more Thai-influenced flavors like green mango and pandan leaf. They’re located near South 1st and Mary St, with ice cream available by the scoop, pint, or gallon for curbside pickup.

Nicolai McCrary Lick Ice Creams $$$$ 1100 S Lamar Blvd

Lick is about as close as Austin gets to a farm-to-table Baskin’ Robbins. They have close to 31 flavors - mostly made with local, seasonal ingredients - three locations in Austin (and another two in San Antonio), and nationwide shipping. A lot of their mainstays are twists on classic ice cream flavors, like dark chocolate with olive oil and sea salt, or vanilla bean with Hill Country honey. But there’s also a whole menu of seasonal flavors like elderberry mojito and lemonade pound cake.

Nicolai McCrary Holla Mode $$$$ 1800 Barton Springs Rd

Holla Mode specializes in “Thai style” ice cream, which isn’t so much a comment on flavors as it is on the method of preparation. The liquid base - made with dairy or coconut milk - is prepared to order before being poured onto a frozen, stainless steel surface, where it quickly starts to freeze. Meanwhile, a wizard of sorts starts scraping this now-frozen mixture into little rolls that get stacked into a cup and covered with all sorts of syrups and toppings. You can make your own combo or go with one of their house specials. We like the Sticky Mango - their take on the classic mango and sticky rice Thai dessert.

North Austin Raphael Brion Bat City Gelato $$$$ 6301 W Parmer Ln Ste 503

Bat City Gelato in North Austin has (you guessed it) house-made gelato and frozen desserts like sorbet, gelato pops and cakes, as well as affogato. They’re constantly rotating flavors in and out - if you see something you like, you better order it - and they’ll even sometimes take customer requests. There are often classic flavors like salted caramel, pistachio, and stracciatella, and there are also creative ones like Almond Joy, butterbeer for you Harry Potter nuts, and Samoas for the Girl Scout Cookie fans. Follow them on Instagram for the latest flavors.

Sugar Pine $$$$ 8578 Research Blvd

Sugar Pine is Japanese cafe near 183 and Ohlen that specializes in bento boxes, soba noodles, onigiri, and ice cream. All of their ice creams and sorbets are made in-house, all-natural, and come in flavors like matcha, black sesame, and watermelon-Thai basil.

Nicolai McCrary SnoMo $$$$ 11301 Lakeline Blvd

Taiwanese snow ice might just be one of our favorite methods of ice-intake. Blurring the lines between shaved ice and ice cream, SnoMo takes giant blocks of creamy, flavored ice and shaves them into bowls, before covering them with your choice of fresh fruit and syrup toppings. We like to go with a fruit-flavored base - like mango or strawberry - and add a scoop of ice cream, some fresh fruit, and condensed milk. But there are so many possible combinations that you could try a different one every day for a couple of years (don’t check our math on that). They have locations in North and South Austin, as well as Cedar Park, and are currently only accepting takeout orders.

Michoacana Natural Ice Cream $$$$ 9426 Parkfield Dr

Michoacana is probably best known for their house-made paletas, but they also have a great selection of ice creams and other frozen treats, like mangonadas and Oreo frappes. You can also get some really fun snacks, like hot cheetos with queso, if you’re feeling especially cheese-inclined. Grab a snack, a scoop, and a paleta, and get ready for a great afternoon.

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Deuteronomy 14

With this chapter, we have read the 'beginning' and the 'end' of Deuteronomy. chapters 20-25 remain. The book is at nearly 90% complete. On the one hand I am delighted because Deuteronomy was Peter Craigie's specialty. And this week was the anniversary of his death. I am also pleased that this chapter brings Torah to nearly 60% complete. I am surprised as well. It was not necessarily 'the plan' to complete Torah next after completing the poetry books, and the scrolls which are keys to Torah. Sometimes I just can't believe how hard this is. How many ways does one have to say, cloven, divided, riven, bisected? How many different roots are needed in a tongue to make this instruction clear? And chewing the cud, ruminating, regurgitating?, is bringing up (עלה) food from the double stomached beast. And naming all these animals.

Let Ithamar minister with a chamois.

What does it tell us about the ancient practices of food production? There must have been a fishing industry and ranching and farming. I wonder if the genus is boar, or swine, or pig. I have not used the last two glosses yet. Do I need to? So many birds of prey!

Deuteronomy 14 Fn Min Max Syll בָּנִ֣ים אַתֶּ֔ם לַֽיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם לֹ֣א תִתְגֹּֽדְד֗וּ וְלֹֽא־תָשִׂ֧ימוּ קָרְחָ֛ה בֵּ֥ין עֵינֵיכֶ֖ם לָמֵֽת 1 Children of Yahweh your God you are. You will not self-slash, and you will not set baldness between your eyes for the dead. 3c 4B 10 16 כִּ֣י עַ֤ם קָדוֹשׁ֙ אַתָּ֔ה לַיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ וּבְךָ֞ בָּחַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה לִֽהְי֥וֹת לוֹ֙ לְעַ֣ם סְגֻלָּ֔ה מִכֹּל֙ הָֽעַמִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הָאֲדָמָֽה 2 B For a holy people you are to Yahweh your God. And Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for himself, a treasure trove, from all the peoples that are on the face of the ground. 3e 4C 12 28 לֹ֥א תֹאכַ֖ל כָּל־תּוֹעֵבָֽה 3 f You will not eat any abomination. 3e 3g 7 זֹ֥את הַבְּהֵמָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר תֹּאכֵ֑לוּ שׁ֕וֹר שֵׂ֥ה כְשָׂבִ֖ים וְשֵׂ֥ה עִזִּֽים 4 f This is the beast that you will eat, bull, lamb of young lambs, and lamb of she-goats, 3e 4B 9 9 אַיָּ֥ל וּצְבִ֖י וְיַחְמ֑וּר וְאַקּ֥וֹ וְדִישֹׁ֖ן וּתְא֥וֹ וָזָֽמֶר 5 Hart, and gazelle, and roebuck, and ibex, and white tailed deer, and antelope, and chamois, 3e 4A 7 11 וְכָל־בְּהֵמָ֞ה מַפְרֶ֣סֶת פַּרְסָ֗ה וְשֹׁסַ֤עַת שֶׁ֙סַע֙ שְׁתֵּ֣י פְרָס֔וֹת מַעֲלַ֥ת גֵּרָ֖ה בַּבְּהֵמָ֑ה אֹתָ֖הּ תֹּאכֵֽלוּ 6 And every beast with bisected hoof and riven, riven into two hoofs, that brings up the cud among the beasts, you yourself will eat. 3e 4C 29 5 אַ֣ךְ אֶת־זֶ֞ה לֹ֤א תֹֽאכְלוּ֙ מִמַּֽעֲלֵ֣י הַגֵּרָ֔ה וּמִמַּפְרִיסֵ֥י הַפַּרְסָ֖ה הַשְּׁסוּעָ֑ה אֶֽת־הַ֠גָּמָל וְאֶת־הָאַרְנֶ֨בֶת וְאֶת־הַשָּׁפָ֜ן כִּֽי־מַעֲלֵ֧ה גֵרָ֣ה הֵ֗מָּה וּפַרְסָה֙ לֹ֣א הִפְרִ֔יסוּ טְמֵאִ֥ים הֵ֖ם לָכֶֽם 7 B But this you will not eat from those who bring up the cud, or from those that bisect the riven hoof, the camel, and and the hare, and the hyrax, for they bring up the cud, but hoof they do not bisect. Unclean they are to you. 3c 4C 24 35 וְאֶת־הַ֠חֲזִיר כִּֽי־מַפְרִ֨יס פַּרְסָ֥ה הוּא֙ וְלֹ֣א גֵרָ֔ה טָמֵ֥א ה֖וּא לָכֶ֑ם מִבְּשָׂרָם֙ לֹ֣א תֹאכֵ֔לוּ וּבְנִבְלָתָ֖ם לֹ֥א תִגָּֽעוּ 8 And boar, for from bisecting hoof it is, but not ruminating. Unclean it is for you. From their flesh you will not eat and their corpses you will not touch. 3e 4B 20 15 אֶת־זֶה֙ תֹּֽאכְל֔וּ מִכֹּ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּמָּ֑יִם כֹּ֧ל אֲשֶׁר־ל֛וֹ סְנַפִּ֥יר וְקַשְׂקֶ֖שֶׂת תֹּאכֵֽלוּ 9 This you will eat from all that is in the waters, all that have fins and scales you will eat. 3c 4B 11 14 וְכֹ֨ל אֲשֶׁ֧ר אֵֽין־ל֛וֹ סְנַפִּ֥יר וְקַשְׂקֶ֖שֶׂת לֹ֣א תֹאכֵ֑לוּ טָמֵ֥א ה֖וּא לָכֶֽם 10 And all that has no fins and scales, you will not eat. Unclean it is for you. 3c 4B 17 5 כָּל־צִפּ֥וֹר טְהֹרָ֖ה תֹּאכֵֽלוּ 11 Every clean bird, you will eat. 3e 3g 9 וְזֶ֕ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־תֹאכְל֖וּ מֵהֶ֑ם הַנֶּ֥שֶׁר וְהַפֶּ֖רֶס וְהָֽעָזְנִיָּֽה 12 And these are they that not you will eat of, the eagle, and the vulture, and the osprey, 3e 4A 9 12 וְהָרָאָה֙ וְאֶת־הָ֣אַיָּ֔ה וְהַדַּיָּ֖ה לְמִינָֽהּ 13 And the vulture, and the falcon, and the kite of its species, 3e 4B 16 וְאֵ֥ת כָּל־עֹרֵ֖ב לְמִינֽוֹ 14 And all raven of its species, 3e 3g 8 וְאֵת֙ בַּ֣ת הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה וְאֶת־הַתַּחְמָ֖ס וְאֶת־הַשָּׁ֑חַף וְאֶת־הַנֵּ֖ץ לְמִינֵֽהוּ 15 And the daughter of the ostrich, and the screech owl, and the seagull, and the hawk of its species, 3e 4B 17 8 אֶת־הַכּ֥וֹס וְאֶת־הַיַּנְשׁ֖וּף וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת 16 The owl, and the barn owl, and the swan, 3e 3g 13 וְהַקָּאָ֥ת וְאֶֽת־הָרָחָ֖מָה וְאֶת־הַשָּׁלָֽךְ 17 And the pelican, and the white vulture, and the cormorant, 3e 3g 15 וְהַ֣חֲסִידָ֔ה וְהָאֲנָפָ֖ה לְמִינָ֑הּ וְהַדּוּכִיפַ֖ת וְהָעֲטַלֵּֽף 18 And the stork, and the heron of its species, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 3e 4B 13 10 וְכֹל֙ שֶׁ֣רֶץ הָע֔וֹף טָמֵ֥א ה֖וּא לָכֶ֑ם לֹ֖א יֵאָכֵֽלוּ 19 And every teeming thing that flies, unclean it is for you, They will not be eaten. 3e 4B 11 5 כָּל־ע֥וֹף טָה֖וֹר תֹּאכֵֽלוּ 20 All the clean fowl, you will eat. 3e 3g 7 לֹ֣א תֹאכְל֣וּ כָל־נְ֠בֵלָה לַגֵּ֨ר אֲשֶׁר־בִּשְׁעָרֶ֜יךָ תִּתְּנֶ֣נָּה וַאֲכָלָ֗הּ א֤וֹ מָכֹר֙ לְנָכְרִ֔י כִּ֣י עַ֤ם קָדוֹשׁ֙ אַתָּ֔ה לַיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ לֹֽא־תְבַשֵּׁ֥ל גְּדִ֖י בַּחֲלֵ֥ב אִמּֽוֹ 21 B You will not eat of any corpse. To the guest that is in your gates you will give it, and he may eat it. Or you may sell to a foreigner. For a holy people you are of Yahweh your God. You will not boil a male kid in the milk of its mother. 3e 4C 40 11 עַשֵּׂ֣ר תְּעַשֵּׂ֔ר אֵ֖ת כָּל־תְּבוּאַ֣ת זַרְעֶ֑ךָ הַיֹּצֵ֥א הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה שָׁנָ֥ה שָׁנָֽה 22 A tenth you will tithe of all the income of your seed, that the field brings forth yearly. 3e 4B 13 10 וְאָכַלְתָּ֞ לִפְנֵ֣י ׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ בַּמָּק֣וֹם אֲשֶׁר־יִבְחַר֮ לְשַׁכֵּ֣ן שְׁמ֣וֹ שָׁם֒ מַעְשַׂ֤ר דְּגָֽנְךָ֙ תִּֽירֹשְׁךָ֣ וְיִצְהָרֶ֔ךָ וּבְכֹרֹ֥ת בְּקָרְךָ֖ וְצֹאנֶ֑ךָ לְמַ֣עַן תִּלְמַ֗ד לְיִרְאָ֛ה אֶת־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ ��ָּל־הַיָּמִֽים 23 And you will eat in the presence of Yahweh your God in the place where he will choose for his name to dwell there, the tithes of your grain, your new wine, and your fresh oil, and the firstborn of your herd, or your flock, so that you will learn to fear Yahweh your God every day. 3d 4C 48 19 וְכִֽי־יִרְבֶּ֨ה מִמְּךָ֜ הַדֶּ֗רֶךְ כִּ֣י לֹ֣א תוּכַ֘ל שְׂאֵתוֹ֒ כִּֽי־יִרְחַ֤ק מִמְּךָ֙ הַמָּק֔וֹם אֲשֶׁ֤ר יִבְחַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ לָשׂ֥וּם שְׁמ֖וֹ שָׁ֑ם כִּ֥י יְבָרֶכְךָ֖ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ 24 And when the way is too much for you, for you are not able to bear it. If the place is too distant from you, where Yahweh your God will choose to put his name there, for Yahweh your God will bless you, 3e 4C 39 11 וְנָתַתָּ֖ה בַּכָּ֑סֶף וְצַרְתָּ֤ הַכֶּ֙סֶף֙ בְּיָ֣דְךָ֔ וְהָֽלַכְתָּ֙ אֶל־הַמָּק֔וֹם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִבְחַ֛ר יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ בּֽוֹ 25 Then you will give it for silver and consolidate the silver into your hand, and you will go to the place where Yahweh your God will choose. 3d 4C 7 28 וְנָתַתָּ֣ה הַכֶּ֡סֶף בְּכֹל֩ אֲשׁ��ר־תְּאַוֶּ֨ה נַפְשְׁךָ֜ בַּבָּקָ֣ר וּבַצֹּ֗אן וּבַיַּ֙יִן֙ וּבַשֵּׁכָ֔ר וּבְכֹ֛ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר תִּֽשְׁאָלְךָ֖ נַפְשֶׁ֑ךָ וְאָכַ֣לְתָּ שָּׁ֗ם לִפְנֵי֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ וְשָׂמַחְתָּ֖ אַתָּ֥ה וּבֵיתֶֽךָ 26 And you will give the silver for all that your being may desire, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, and for all that your being may request, and you will eat there before Yahweh your God, and you will be glad, you and your house. 3d 4B 40 23 וְהַלֵּוִ֥י אֲשֶׁר־בִּשְׁעָרֶ֖יךָ לֹ֣א תַֽעַזְבֶ֑נּוּ כִּ֣י אֵ֥ין ל֛וֹ חֵ֥לֶק וְנַחֲלָ֖ה עִמָּֽךְ 27 And the Levite that is in your gates, you will not forsake him, for he is without share or inheritance with you. 3d 4B 15 11 מִקְצֵ֣ה ׀ שָׁלֹ֣שׁ שָׁנִ֗ים תּוֹצִיא֙ אֶת־כָּל־מַעְשַׂר֙ תְּבוּאָ֣תְךָ֔ בַּשָּׁנָ֖ה הַהִ֑וא וְהִנַּחְתָּ֖ בִּשְׁעָרֶֽיךָ 28 At the culmination of three years, you will bring forth all the tithes of your income in that year, and you will superintend it in your gates. 3e 4B 21 8 וּבָ֣א הַלֵּוִ֡י כִּ֣י אֵֽין־לוֹ֩ חֵ֨לֶק וְנַחֲלָ֜ה עִמָּ֗ךְ וְ֠הַגֵּר וְהַיָּת֤וֹם וְהָֽאַלְמָנָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בִּשְׁעָרֶ֔יךָ וְאָכְל֖וּ וְשָׂבֵ֑עוּ לְמַ֤עַן יְבָרֶכְךָ֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ בְּכָל־מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יָדְךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֥ר תַּעֲשֶֽׂה 29 And the Levite will come, for he is without share or inheritance with you, and the guest, and the orphans, and the widows, that are in your gates, and they will eat and be satisfied, so that Yahweh your God will bless you in all the deeds of your hand that you will do. 3e 4C 41 25

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