[ he frowns, mouth pulling tight, and then says: ] Being dead.
[ it is a lie, but it's - not. it isn't, at the same time. he was, after all, dead. and how many times has vax died over their little journey? he's had to be resurrected too, once even not that long after percy.
it's a safer answer.
(right now, he's a coward. maybe he'll always be a coward; even when it felt like he accepted it, now that he's having to face the entire conversation again, vax shies away.) ]
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[ it is a lie, but it's - not. it isn't, at the same time. he was, after all, dead. and how many times has vax died over their little journey? he's had to be resurrected too, once even not that long after percy.
it's a safer answer.
(right now, he's a coward. maybe he'll always be a coward; even when it felt like he accepted it, now that he's having to face the entire conversation again, vax shies away.) ]