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Atton is outside, training.

He has a dozen or so floating targets, like dartboards, zipping around him very quickly and firing stun bolts down at him from tiny holes at the sides. It's very obvious that he cobbled them together from various machines.

He's blindfolded, and he's alternating between throwing knives at them with one hand and shooting them with another, while dodging the stun bolts. Judging by the bright, chirpy green flashes and the heavy blaster scoring and multiple knife marks on and immediately around the bullseye, he's doing quite well.

He may be grinning from ear to ear, because it's reassuring to know that he's not helpless without the Force.

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"And?"

"And fuck it, I'm drunk and confused and I hate it when people are cryptic at me. A warning and congratulations, and then she was gone."

"A warning? D'you need bodyguards?"

"I have them. Their names are Stheno and Euryale and they are over-protective tyrants."

"Need any more?"

"I am a Queen, not an ornament."

"I don't see why you can't be both." Atton teases. "C'mon, I mean, if you were warned."

"And I cannot defend myself?"

"I expect with claws, lightning and a kriffin' stone gaze, you probably can, but still."

She takes a drink from the bottle, and just gazes at him.

"I need to."

Atton raises his hands, sighing.
"Okay."

She doesn't say thank you, but she does nod slightly.

"Are you okay?"

This time, she shakes her head.

And takes another drink.

Atton looks rather unhappy at this.
"Drinking won't help, y'know."

"It is better than worrying."

"I think you'll worry even if you are drunk, right?"

"Oh, shut up."

Atton draws a finger across his lips, as if zipping them.

"I didn't mean." She gestures.

"What were you doing, before?"

Atton mimes throwing stuff and doing a little dance.

She blinks.

Atton sighs dramatically. Also, silently.

"You are strange."

Atton points to himself, then at his brain, then at Medusa, before doing a little dance around.