[The tone is dry but the dryness is at the situation. It's not sarcasm. Lots of people Percy's age would've bought what they were told without questioning so it's a credit to him that he's questioning it.]
[Peter hammers down a tile, neatly putting each nail in with only a single small tap.]
I'll be honest, I only took the deal because I thought I'd been knocked unconscious and that I was dreaming. Or that I'd been shot in the head without realizing and that it was some weird little segue into the afterlife fueled by a lifetime of way too many nerd movies.
[Why he'd been in a position to worry about getting shot, he didn't say.]
I only half-thought it was real.
Only reason I'm staying at this point is I'm a little concerned about there being a group of people that have been help-me-Obi-Wanned into going to an alien world to help strange people with unknown motives against an unnamed threat.
[A pause.]
Plus I had nothing else going on.
[Miles had gotten control of the super-collider and was ready to be his world's Spider-Man, the other spiders could go back home, and Peter didn't have much of a life to go back to.]
I don't like it. I've been help-me-Obi-Wanned into a shady situation that wasn't what I'd been told more times than I'd like to admit. I don't want to see it happen to anyone else.
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[The tone is dry but the dryness is at the situation. It's not sarcasm. Lots of people Percy's age would've bought what they were told without questioning so it's a credit to him that he's questioning it.]
[Peter hammers down a tile, neatly putting each nail in with only a single small tap.]
I'll be honest, I only took the deal because I thought I'd been knocked unconscious and that I was dreaming. Or that I'd been shot in the head without realizing and that it was some weird little segue into the afterlife fueled by a lifetime of way too many nerd movies.
[Why he'd been in a position to worry about getting shot, he didn't say.]
I only half-thought it was real.
Only reason I'm staying at this point is I'm a little concerned about there being a group of people that have been help-me-Obi-Wanned into going to an alien world to help strange people with unknown motives against an unnamed threat.
[A pause.]
Plus I had nothing else going on.
[Miles had gotten control of the super-collider and was ready to be his world's Spider-Man, the other spiders could go back home, and Peter didn't have much of a life to go back to.]
I don't like it. I've been help-me-Obi-Wanned into a shady situation that wasn't what I'd been told more times than I'd like to admit. I don't want to see it happen to anyone else.