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"If you get struck by lightning, I don't want to be too close to you."

"I'm not going to get struck by lightning."

I nodded.

"So..."

I looked around. "How did I end up across the country?"

"Good question."

My mind shut down as I watched and listen to them. All of this was crazy. It had to be a dream or some sort of hallucination... Caldwell and I had been trailing after some well know bandits, who just so happened to be known to use poisons and drugs on people who got in their way. 
That had to be it. They must have spotted me and drugged me. This was all fake, just a hallucination my mind was making up. I was probably dying. Great. Just great.

"You alright Nicholas?"

"No, don't talk to me," I insisted. "Just because I'm hallucinating doesn't mean that I'm going to listen to the voices in my head," I said, pinching my arm, trying to wake up and snap out of it.

I flicked the water in his face.

I tried to convince myself that that too had been fake, but it felt real, and way too real. "Gorlan's beard..." I muttered quietly, my eyes widening.

"Pretty sure the phrase is "Merlin's beard."

"Pretty sure we all have different swear words."

"And I'm pretty sure it's 'Gorlan's beard'," I shot back at the guy, raising an eyebrow as if daring him to try to correct me again. "Gorlan was an old baron of a castle where I come from." I then turned to the girl, Olivia as I'd been told. "And yeah, that seems to be the case."

"Yeah."

I smirked at him before turning to Olivia. "What's yours, out of curiosity?"

"Depends on my mood."

I nodded.

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"Usually something about Zeus because he's a jerk or Hera because she's a jerk." I pulled more water out of the air.

I paused. "What?" I faintly remembered having heard of Zeus and Hera, but I couldn't remember how, or where from.

"King and Queen Olympians."

That still didn't help spark my memory, but after all my time training with Caldwell I'd learned not to ask to many questions. Instead of questioning this strangeness more I stayed quiet.

I smiled softly at a thought. "In my fandom-is that it?- Zeus blessed us by not killing Captain Swan."

"I hate Zeus."