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[nola_cyclops]

Caleb

Hey. I just wanted you to know I'm going away for a few days with Oliver. But if there's anything you need, if anything happens, please reach out.



Zach

I'm going to Westchester. Fool's errand, I know. But I need to see that it's not there, as stupid as it sounds.

Comments

[nola_beast]

You were raised to be the fixer.

[nola_cyclops]

Well, yes. And there were still things to fix in the future. A son to raise, forces to fight. The same cause, really.

[nola_beast]

Would doing those things make you happy?

[nola_cyclops]

I don’t think happy is the word. Maybe it’s a sense of purpose. Maybe it’s not even that, but that it’s how I always first and foremost defined not just myself but the world around me, and everyone else in it. Maybe I’m just too weirded out by being happy here. I don’t know. Maybe it’s just always my role to think about these things so everyone else doesn’t have to, just in case.

[nola_beast]

Be prepared, just like the Boy Scouts.

[nola_cyclops]

God, I haven’t been called a boy scout in years. The things you miss.

[nola_beast]

I suppose Cyke is out of the question.

[nola_cyclops]

I hope not! I'll answer to any of those names.

[nola_beast]

You're so easygoing and accommodating.

[nola_cyclops]

Yes, that's me. It's hard to not call you Hank!

[nola_beast]

You can, if you want. Do you call the others by their old names?

[nola_cyclops]

Oliver and I use all of each other's names all the time, depending on the moment and whatever name we think of first. Katie prefers not to be called Jean. Caleb hates it when I call him Alex but I do it anyway.

[nola_beast]

That's your prerogative as a brother, I imagine.

[nola_cyclops]

Exactly. He's not getting rid of this bond that easily.