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This is: Can You Hear Me?
This went from being cute to being angsty. Shocker.
No seriously, the cute version of this chapter failed half-way so I just rewrote it with CimFan's request.
I don't own PJO.
Thalia
Summary preview: Calling out to a world that no longer cares.
Being a tree wasn't that bad, after the first year or so. Dionysus made sure that you didn't die from lack of water, and people usually stopped by and sat by you.
And sometimes you could actually form a complete human thought. Most days you could still use pictures to represent your human thoughts; although those days were getting longer in-between.
Like when you wished to recall the beginning, you used the image of your human self (it was slightly blurry after not having seen it in so long) huddled into a ball to represent the emotion of loneliness that plagued you.
When those rare human thoughts crossed your mind you wondered what emotions felt like.
The first few days, you could kind of remember using human thought to scream at the gods for turning you into a tree.
Eventually it was just a constant stream of Can you hear me? Can anyone out there even freaking hear me? Luke? Annabeth? Anyone?
But human thoughts faded, becoming replaced with the images. Like the image of the blonde girl who would sometimes sit beside you and tell you about her day. Or the sandy haired blond guy who you hadn't 'seen' since he looked up at your branches and yelled, with a new, deep cut on the side of his face.
If you could still miss things, you would probably miss him.
Am I becoming nothing but a tree?
Human thought. How unusual. You struggled to find an answer and had a vague image of a girl with spike black hair- no you- wait was it really?- of course not- but wait-
But then the wind started swirling, and all things human about you left as you danced to the patterns of spring the only way you could.
Me: Would Thalia still have been in her human state of mind the entire six years she was a tree? Seems a little cruel to allow her mind to crumple under the weight of emotions when the entire point of turning her into a tree was to save her.
I, personally, would have rather have been completely tree during my time as one, then a despairing sane (hopefully), human.
I don't think it matters, as I think somewhere in TC it tells us that Thalia doesn't really remember being a tree at all.
Next Chapter: Heal
Thoughts?
~ Anna/ Booklover98