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Keira sat in the passenger side seat of her mother's car, as she looked over towards her mom, it had been a rather long day after driving the last several hours up to Rhode Island. She was still processing what her mother had told her about her real father which was still a bit hard to understand. But she knew that it was true everything that had happened ever since they had left Florida, then her mother parked the car on the side of the road. Keira looked out the window the sun was just about to set she closed her eyes a bit letting out a sigh she didn't want to leave her mother but then again it was just for the summer as well.

"This is where we need to part ways, don't worry you will be fine." Keira looked towards her and nodded a little bit and sighed as she reached over and started to grab her backpack. "I'll see you at the end of summer, I love you." Keira said towards her mother and gave her a loving hug, and then she got out of the car and waved towards her mother as she turned around and started to pull out and head back down the road that they had been driving on. Keira adjusted the straps to her backpack and started to make her way into the woods, until she walked up the hill seeing the massive pine tree that was there and walked through the Camp's Property Line.

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Ryland woke up rather early that morning, remembering that Chiron had wanted him to be ready to start as an orientation leader for any newbies who may arrive, and remembering that one was coming on that day. Although it seemed he had woken up entirely too early as when he looked outside the sun was just barely rising. Letting out a small grown, he looked towards the statue of his father that loomed in the cabin and seemed to be watching him at all times. "Couldn't like, be a helpful alarm clock so I get used to sleeping in, huh pops?" The boy muttered even though he knew the stone would not answer in return. Groaning in complaint as he rolled out of bed, the son of Zeus decided to go for a simple combination of shorts and camp t-shirt for the day. No need for much else. With that out of the way, Ryland set out to start his day a bit early by heading out to the arena. Wanting to make sure that things were in order for the later training class that he would have to be teaching. Humming to himself as he walked, Ryland was certainly rather enjoying the summer morning air, especially since it hadn't had time to get hot and humid yet in the day. For now, it was simply nice and cool thanks to the air rolling in off of the lake.

Arriving at the arena, Ryland was pleased to see that nobody had messed with how he had organized the dummies and weapons which he would be teaching with later that day. Usually, he half expected that one of the Hermes kids would come by to play a prank, or the Ares kids would try to steal some just to spite him after their latest embarrassment during capture the flag. With a small shrug and a sigh he still went through to closely inspect each weapon and make sure it was up to par. The process including making a few slashes with a sword here, a couple of stabs from a spear there, and the likes with each weapon. The process taking him quite a few hours until nearly when he had to be up at the hill to meet their newest camper. As he finished with the last one, the boy set it back in its place and began briskly making his way up and out of the arena. Making his way briskly across the camp, Ryland called out a few friendly greetings to those he passed as they all got up for the day and started going about their daily routines. It wouldn't be long before he arrived at the hill, deciding to lean against the tree while he waited for Miss Kiera Donovan to show up. Wonder who's kid she will be? He mused to himself, almost wondering if perhaps another big three or powerful demigod was going to show up on that day. Maybe that was why Chiron had been adamant he start that day? He wasn't sure, and it didn't matter for now.

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Atop Half-Blood hill, a blonde boy waited leaning against the pine tree for the newcomer. He looked like your average 15 year old, nothing out of place about his camp t-shirt, jeans, or even the bead necklace around his neck. As the girl grew close, Ryland pushed off from the tree and gave the girl a small wave. "Welcome to Camp Half-Blood." He started with a kind, relaxed smile that had something charming about it. "Kiera Donovan, I take it? I'm Ryland Astrapí, Chiron asked me to welcome you to camp today." He said in a relaxed manner as he turned to look back towards the valley that housed the camp. "You'll meet him later, but first I take it you'll wanna get settled in and have a little tour of the camp. Get to see whats up, no? Also, feel free to throw any questions you have my way as soon as they come up." He said once more and gestured for the girl to follow him as he set out into camp. Making his way first towards the Hermes cabin where she would be staying until her parent claimed her. Judging by the woman he had noticed down by the car, Ryland felt like he could safely assume it was on the Gods who would be claiming her. "We'll get you set up first in Hermes Cabin, they welcome all our newcomers until your parent claims you. Buncha friendly folk, but word of advice, keep a close eye on your stuff." He explained as they walked towards the array of cabins fixated within the Valley.

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As Keira made her way up to the top of the hill she looked up at the boy who was exactly her age and gave him an awkward smile and waved towards him. "It's nice to meet you." She said softly as she got to the top of the hill as she adjusted her backpack a little bit over her shoulder and looked at him. She wasn't sure who exactly Chiron was, but she would end up meeting him soon enough as Kiera followed Ryland down into the valley. "So how long have you been here anyway?" She asked as they started to get closer towards the cabins, she would look at the various kids around her age some older and some younger as well.

Keira looked towards the Hermes cabin seeing some of the kids that were there doing their own thing in the cabin some of them accusing one another for stealing something of theirs. Just as Ryland mentioned that and rubbed her arm a little bit awkwardly and nodded she didn't want them to be taking any of her things. "So what do you all do here anyway?" Kiera asked him as well, she didn't get to many answers from her mother on the long drive over really either.

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As they made their way towards the Hermes cabin, Kiera had a question for him it seemed. Looking back towards the girl he gave a small shrug before responding. "About four years, actually. I usually stay year-round at camp here, trouble seems to find me on the outside." Ryland responded in a rather calm manner. To him, the camp had become his home so he didn't really see anything strange with having stayed at camp for so long. As they approached the entrance to the cabin, he could already hear the chaos unfolding inside and rolled his eyes. Giving Kiera an apologetic look, he swung the cabin door open to the dull roar of accusations and general chaos erupting inside of the cabin. "Listen up kiddos, you got a new cabin mate for the time being until she's claimed. Treat her well, and if I hear about anything being stolen then we got a problem. Her name is Kiera, though I will let her introduce herself." He said in a rather confident tone as the cabin turned to look at the boy for a few moments. When Kiera elected to ask a question instead, she got various answers about camp activities ranging from volleyball to sword training. Along with more than her fair share of friendly greetings and waves from the cabin members. Seemed everything was going rather well on that front if Ryland had to take a guess. Though soon enough the time to quietly watch the interactions was over, as the question from Kiera was turned then on him. Giving a small shrug once more, he wanted to give a simple 'nothing much', but figured that wouldn't fly too well. "Well, I evidently welcome our new campers now, I also teach the combat training down in the arena, and I'm the Oracle's guard as needed. Other than that, play soccer and prank our poor Oracle until she threatens me." He said with a slight grin at the last comment.

Once she seemed settled in, Ryland spoke up once more towards Kiera. "Since it seems like you're settled in, why don't I show you around camp?" He offered as he gestured for the girl to follow. He knew he had to show her around more or less, and end up at the Big House to meet Chiron at the end of it all. Once they were heading out, he gestured around at the massive amount of cabins surrounding the central firepit, each seeming to have vastly different themes. Ranging from the landmine-ridden Ares cabin to the barbie-like dollhouse of Aphrodite cabin. "This, is where we have all the cabins. One for each God and Goddess, once your parent claims you, you'll be moved to their cabin. There you can meet your siblings and just, in general, enjoy the aesthetic of being among people just like yourself. If you ever need me, I'm in the big stone one on the end." He said as he pointed towards the Zeus Cabin that seemed to spark with electricity occasionally along the roof. "Feel free to come by whenever I'm the only one in there so you won't be bothering anybody." He said with a slight laugh before continuing on his way. He took her by the forest, along with the cautions of never to go in there along, the lake and canoes, the lava climbing wall, and of course the arena. Though he ensured to stop and show her everybody's favorite building, the mess hall. At the arena, however, Ryland explained why it was important for them to know how to fight. Of course, he also mentioned getting her a weapon later before finally leading Kiera off towards the Big House. "Alright, and finally we got the Big House. I know this was all a chaotic blur, but you'll get used to it I am sure. Just head inside to meet Chiron and Dionysus, though I think it fair to warn you that Dionysus is a bit of a dick so... expect that." He said calmly before waving to her and taking a step back. "If you're up to it later, Kiera, I'll be at the arena teaching combat lessons. We can get you a weapon and some lessons, or just chat. See ya around." The son of Zeus said before turning to head off to start his lessons for the day.

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Kiera looked at all of the Hermes kids as they all started to answer her question, she smiled awkwardly at all of them and gave them a slight wave and started to introduce herself to them. Before going over and finding a place in the cabin and set down her backpack and quickly followed over towards Ryland. "Well just don't prank me." She said, she didn't really like to be pranked if it happened she made she to make it even. "Lead the way." Kiera said giving a slight smile as she started to follow along side Ryland as he showed her all of the other cabins that were there.

She then continued to follow alongside him and looked at some of the pegasi as they flew over head and some landing a few feet away from her looking at the riders on them. They waved at her and she smiled back as she returned the wave, before catching up to Ryland along towards the Big House that was at the center of the camp. "Alright i'll see you later I guess." Kiera said giving him a slight smile, before she started to head inside of the building itself.

About an hour or so later Kiera came out of the building listening to the orientation that they had she decided to look around and made her way over towards the arena area. Once she was there Kiera stood and watched as the various other demigod children going on about training hitting dummies in Greek armor. She walked over and leaned herself up against the wall of the entrance as she watched them going about their training looking around for Ryland.

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Ryland was front and center in the group that Kiera found training. With his own dummy set up, he was able to demonstrate moves for the younger campers all around. Bearing a shield on one arm and a sword in the other, he moved with the fluidity of a trained warrior. Though he moved slowly for his trainees to see. A cut from the side and a shield brought up overhead as if to block an attack from above. His students moved in kind as he watched and nodded approvingly. Occasionally moving around to stop one of the students and critique their movements. Though overall he seemed like a kind teacher, one who genuinely cared how well each of his students was doing at their tasks. Of course, why wouldn't he? This was literally life or death when out in the real world for those he was teaching. After a few moments, he paused and noticed Kiera leaning against the wall and nodded. Looking towards one of the obviously older campers, he pointed at them. "Somebody I need to talk to. Johnathan, you're in charge of the class until I am back. I want all of you to do two sets of what I showed you, then two sets of the basic stabs. Johnathan, make sure everybody is doing it and help out the less experienced students." He commanded simply before turning and making his way up the steps. As he did, Kiera would see his shield turn into a watch while the sword he threw up turned into a simple pen as he caught it.

"Hey, hopefully, Mr. D didn't turn you off from camp too much." Ryland said with a small smile as the blonde stopped just short of Kiera. After giving her a few moments to respond, the boy looked back towards his class training below. "So, stop by just to admire me, or do you want to get a weapon and some training? Figure its a bit more fun than standing around being confused all day, yeah?" He asked with a small grin, fully aware of the slight flirt he had tossed in just to see how the girl would respond to it. Having asked his question, Ryland leaned against the opposite wall and kept an eye on his students from above. They were truly doing rather well if one were to ask him. Of course, it's not like he would tell them that one. Last thing he wanted was for a bunch of kids his age with deadly weapons to be thinking they're the next greatest thing. He could only imagine how much Apollo cabin would be screaming at him from the wounds they would have to deal with. But he wore an approving look as he watched the group, a smile that certainly showed the sense of pride that Ryland found in his students training below. Something that even Kiera might be able to notice were she to be paying close enough attention.

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Kiera watched as Ryland went and teached the younger campers with their swords a little bit, he seemed to be a pretty good teacher in her opinion as Kiera noticed him taking notice of her and told someone else to take up the rest of the teaching for awhile. She watched him walking his way over towards her, noticing his shield easily and quickly turning into a watch of some kind which was actually really interesting along with the sword as well as it turned into a pen. Kiera started to wonder how that even worked or was even possible as Ryland came up to her.

She blushed a little bit and tucked a stray strand of her red hair behind her ear and met his gaze a bit as she thought for a moment, she didn't really know to much about fighting at least not yet anyway. "Well I wouldn't mind being taught by you." Kiera said giving him a slight smile as she stood up fully now. Ready to actually learn what he would be willing to teach her anyway as she motioned for him to lead th way. "Please lead the way to the weapons master." Kiera said.

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Ryland raised an eyebrow as it seemed like Kiera felt it was important to note that she wouldn't mind being taught by him. His gaze lingered for a moment before he smiled and nodded. Then looking towards the group training below. "Alright! Training's over for today, I've gotta get Ms. Kiera here some weapons. I want each of you to practice what we went over by Thursday, I will be testing you on it. Whoever does best... well I'll to Chiron about chore scheduling." He said with a slight grin, knowing they would scramble to train in order to get the easier chores around camp. Certainly, to avoid helping the kitchen harpies clean, lava was kind of a dangerous to use for cleaning to most non-magical creatures. As the others all left, he turned towards Kiera and nodded. "We don't really have a weapons master. Just kinda a shed and a general understanding don't touch it or Mr. D will turn you into a dolphin." He said with a slight laugh as he started making his way towards said weapons shed situated near the arena. Opening the unassuming wooden shed, he showed Kiera a wide range of deadly weaponry. Ranging from knives to greatswords to even a few rifles situated towards the back. "Go ahead, choose one that suits you and I'll even toss in a free lesson. No need to thank me, I know I'm so generous." He said with a small laugh while gesturing to show that he was kidding towards Kiera as he waited for her to choose her weapon of choice. Soon after, the two would be in the arena as Ryland began showing Kiera how to handle her weapons. Taking it one step at a time to show her the basics and then seeing what she could do. Over the course of the next couple of hours, the two worked out the basics, exchanged laughs, and slight flirts with each other. Though after a few hours it was time each went their separate ways, Ry going to get dinner and do some chores while Kiera was free to fill her time with whatever.

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That night at the campfire, the flame was roaring nearly twenty feet high and turning a golden color due to high spirits from the summer just starting out. Various camp songs were sung to the tune of the Apollo cabin's guitar playing, all variations on the Greek myths. Ryland was late to the campfire, having fallen asleep in his cabin shortly after dinner. As he came up, the boy happened to notice that Kiera was sitting with some space near her at the campfire. Moving quickly to claim the spot, he bumped shoulders with the girl to let her know that he was there. "Fancy seeing you here." He said quickly before joining into whatever silly song was being sung at the moment. Though after a few more songs, the lyrics suddenly were cut off in the middle of a song about minotaurs. The silence overtaking the crowd at a rather rapid rate as people started to exclaim and point. All attention turned towards Kiera and Ryland. More specifically, towards the glow above Kiera's head. Ryland's eyes went wide as he noticed the change above the new camper, and what the green trident meant. Under his breath he cursed slightly, knowing the bad blood between their parents would no doubt affect them at some point. Taking a couple of steps back, before kneeling down as the rest of the camp followed suit. "Your father..." He said in a soft tone, already wondering what it meant that another child of the Big Three was showing up so soon. Before he could say much more, a wiser and much older voice boomed over the crowd. Chiron, announcing the claiming more formally than the whispers among the crowd suggest. "It has been decided. Your father has claimed you, Kiera, Poseidon the Earthshaker, Stormbringer, Father of Horses. Hail, Kiera Donovan, Daughter of the Sea God." The centaur said firmly even as a wave of 'hail' was echoed out across the campers. When he rose to his feet and looked towards Kiera, Ryland gave her a look to see if she was alright with the sudden attention.

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After spending the last few hours of training with Ryland, she felt like she had picked it up rather quickly which was pretty good, she picked up two swords, one in each hand. It somehow felt like it was a lot more easier for her than holding a big bulky looking shield like Ryland used. After their little training session she enjoyed getting to know him as they went their sperate ways for now she had a feeling that she would end up seeing him later on in the evening. Kiera headed back towards the Hermes cabin, where there were still a few kids that were in there. It looked like it was still a rowdy mess in there, she made a note to just stay out as long as possible to get a least a little bit of quiet from them. Kiera walked over to where she laid her pack down and opened it up, sighing slightly it was good that they didn't take anything of hers.

Then it was dinner time Kiera made her way there, and sat down at the Hermes' table with all of the other kids, she got the feeling that she wasn't a Hermes kid at all. She just felt off being there, even though they all seemed to be very friendly and approachable for the most part if you didn't want your stuff stolen anyway. Then dinner officially started, she looked at everyone for a moment when they got up and dumped a little bit of their own food into the nearby brazier. She asked why they were doing it, one of them answered it was for the Gods. Kiera thought it was a little bit weird but she did it anyway as she dumped a small portion of her food there, and quickly joined the others at the Hermes table and finished eater dinner.

Then dinner was over and the sun finally set, Kiera followed the remaining campers back towards the cabins where the massive firepit was and then the Apollo kids started to breakout into song. Kiera moved over and found a small seat by herself, and sat down she was still smiling. She felt like she did belong there now, but she didn't see Ryland at all there, until she felt him touch her shoulder and sat down next to him. Kiera gave him a friendly smile as she gave him a nod. "Fancy seeing you here as well finally." Kiera said jokingly and then she heard a few of the other demigod kids yelling out.

They all looked towards her, and then over towards Ryland and mentioned her father she looked up seeing the trident just above her head, and then saw Chiron trotting up to them. She looked at the others, with a confused look she wasn't sure why they were all kneeling at her it did feel weird. She didn't know much about her father, other then her mother and him met out at sea or something like that, Kiera felt uncomfortable with all of the attention now on her as well.

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Really? He wondered if that was some cruel sense of fate. Somebody he got along with well from the looks, and didn't judge him for who his father was. Even more so, a rather pretty girl at that. Yet she had to be the daughter of his father's rival, something that he worried would doom their friendship. If he dared step foot into the ocean he was in danger from her father. If she went into the sky with him, his father would be tempted to strike her down. As he kneeled, Ryland sent a small prayer asking for some guidance to his father. Was she sent to camp for some sort of fate? That was the worst thing about the mythical side of things, he was never sure what was purely coincidence and what was fate. He'd go talk to the oracle tomorrow, see if perhaps she would have some insight. At the thought of that, he figured it might be a good idea to go introduce Kiera.

He was admittedly quite a bit displeased with the parentage of the girl, knowing the bad blood between their parents and thinking how it could very easily ruin interactions between the two. After kneeling for a few moments, he pushed those darker thoughts off to the side. Standing he reached towards the girl's hand to lead her away from the bonfire should she allow it. He could tell how uncomfortable she felt with everybody staring at her. "Come on, lets get your stuff to move into your cabin. You looked uncomfortable so I... can understand that. We've got a lot of a pressure for our parentage." He said quietly, a bit more serious than his carefree attitude from before. A hint of sadness hidden in his eyes before he forced the look away and gave her a light smile. "Besides, how else am I supposed to show off?" He said jokingly with a small shrug. Without any other words he continued to quietly walk alongside Kiera before seeming to think of something else. "How are you handling all this?" He asked with a raised eyebrow. "Also, tomorrow morning, meet me by the dining hall after breakfast. I have somebody you should meet." He said.

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Kiera still felt very weird and uncomfortable seeing some of the kids staring at her expecting to say something to them, but she wasn't sure at all. Then she looked down at Ryland, as he took her by the hand and started to follow him away from the other campers blushing a bit but didn't really say anything yet. As they were now a bit further away now from the others Kiera rubbed the back of her neck awkwardly she wasn't sure what to actually think. She didn't even know her father all that well either, biting her bottom lip knowing that her father was a Greek god was hard enough to think right now.

"I don't know really.." Kiera said awkwardly as she walked her way back towards the Hermes cabin, it was a good thing then that she didn't have to repack everything she didn't have a chance to really unpack. She then headed inside and grabbed her backpack and came out with it slung over her shoulder looking at Ryland, raising an eyebrow towards him. "Who are we meeting exactly?" Kiera asked, she was curious as well.

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He helped the girl pack her things though that took like no time at all. He quickly enough after noticed he still held her hand and let go of it quickly with a deep blush. "Sorry." He mumbled out before turning to wait outside of her cabin until she came out to be led to the Poseidon cabin. As they walked through the darkness, Ryland stayed a little close to Kiera, subconsciously trying to prevent her from feeling embarrassed after the whole situation. For a few moments after her question he remained quiet. "Tomorrow I wanna bring you to see the Oracle. She's a good friend of mine, and has the spirit of Delphi inside her. I want her to see if she knows why you came to us. Unfortunately us children of the Big Three usually only show up before some big disaster. I want her to comfort that thiught away." He said quietly as they walked.

Eventually they came up on a cabin painted green, well decorated with various aspects of the sea and inside a few bunks as well as a fountain spewing water. Fortunately enough for Kiera, it was also the closest to the beach. Ryland led her inside and gestured around the cabin. "Welcome to your cabin, daughter of Posedion. You're free to decorate however you want, just don't move the fountain. Its a gift from your dad to the previous guy who lived here, Percy. It lets you send and recieve Iris Messages. Do you need any help unpacking?" He said as the two stood alone in the cabin.

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Kiera blushed slightly as Ryland held her hand once she had gathered her things and quietly followed alongside him as she adjusted her backpack on her back a little bit. Once they were at the green looking cabin, it somehow felt like it was a very homie feel to her seeing the bits of seashells and other things from the sea outside of it. "So, we could end the world or something? That's a comforting thought. I guess I can go and see her." Kiera said sarcastically as she headed inside of her cabin and looked around it seeing there were a few bunks there but being there alone by herself did feel nice.

Kiera wasn't sure what he meant by Iris Messages as she eyed the fountain that was in the center of the room, and then looked over towards Ryland as he offered her some help unpacking. She then shook her head a little bit, she just had some clothes that's about it really as she headed over towards a nearby desk that was there seeing two mechanical pencils that were there. "I think i'll be fine, I just brought some clothes really." Kiera answered as she turned to look at Ryland. "Thank you by the way, for showing me around and stuff." Kiera said towards him.

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"Well, we can't really end the world on our own. I hope. But we're powerful, and sadly powerful beings usually aren't born without something terrible being on the horizon." He said softly, a tinge of sadness hidden in his voice as it threatened to betray his inner emotions on the subject. Yet as soon as it had shown itself, Ryland was brushing off the feeling and forcing a carefree expression back on his features. "However, we do get our own cabins. I think that's worth the trade-off." He joked with a half-smile. "Either way, Rosie will get everything cleared up tomorrow so no need to worry about that sort of stuff. We can head over to see her after breakfast tomorrow, yeah?" He added as she said that she wouldn't need any help unpacking.

Then she turned to thank him, and Ryland caught himself looking for a moment at how the girl looked in the slight darkness of the light. He hoped it wasn't overly obvious he was checking her out as she thanked him for everything. The boy giving a small shrug in response. "I rather enjoyed getting to know you, Kiera. Sorry about the whole... everybody staring at you after you got claimed thing. I'll uh, get out of your hair now unless you need something else. Feel free to stop by my cabin or just throw something at me if you need something. Hope to see ya around camp." He said as he gave her a friendly wave before making his way towards the door to the cabin to leave. Stepping outside, he allowed himself a long breath of the night air before making his way back towards his own cabin. He needed to be up rather early tomorrow to go visit Rosie, else she would give him shit for bringing somebody by while she was trying to paint. Again.

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"It's alright, just wasn't used to the attention and stuff." Kiera said giving a slight shrug as she walked over towards the door and smiled slightly towards him and nodded. "Sounds like a plan i'll see you at breakfast or something." Keira said as she watched Ryland turn around and left her cabin. She watched him for a little bit before closing the door behind her and went to unpack her things, tossing her clothes that she had worn during the day on the floor for now. She would figure out where to put them all later now, she got changed into her PJs and quickly turned off the lights and went to sleep rather quickly.

The next morning Kiera slept rather peacefully as she got up from her bed and found a camp shirt was on her bed and quickly got changed into that, grabbing the things that she thought she would need and left to get some breakfast. She sat on the Poseidon table by herself as she started to eat her breakfast looking among the other campers that were there and ran a hand through her hair as she went to eat peacefully by herself.

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Ryland also ate by himself at the table for Zeus kids, not something that was terribly surprising to him. If he had any siblings, Hera might've actually lost her mind and blown up Olympus at this point. Out of the corner of his eye, he could clearly see Kiera eating on her own. He was tempted to go join her, but knew that would spawn an endless amount of rumors almost instantly and that wasn't something Ryland was overly eager to subject Kiera to. Once he finished up, he made his way outside to lean just to the right of the door until Kiera came out to meet up with him. At which point he would step out and wave at her slightly to come join him.

"Ready to go, Kiera? Rosie will likely be awake by now. If she's not then... well then I get to prank her and frankly there is no downside to this." He said with a slight grin to try to keep a light mood in the morning. It was peaceful enough, although Ryland wasn't sure how long that would last through the day. He could feel a bit of a sense that it would rain later that day, call it inuition of the Son of a Storm God. He just hoped it would stay dry while he was teaching later that day, he didn't want to see a bunch of kids slipping and falling because the concrete wet.

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Kiera looked at the other campers who were sitting in their own tables that were assigned to them by their godly parent, as she rubbed the back of her neck she continued to eat. As her eyes wondered over towards Ryland seeing that he was also sitting in his own table as well by himself. It was something that they had in common it seems as they sat there by themselves, Kiera continued to eat her breakfast and about a few minutes later she had finished eating seeing Ryland waiting there for her.

Kiera got up and made his way over towards him and gave him a slight wave and smile. "Sounds like a good plan then." Kiera said softly as she motioned for him to lead the way towards wherever they were going, she still was trying to get adjusted to traveling around the camp and didn't know where everything was exactly just yet.

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Before they left, Ryland ducked inside the dining pavilion to grab a chocolate-chip muffin and wrap it up as a peace offering in case he did have to wake up Rosie. The last thing he wanted was his best friend at camp to turn on him and suddenly try to prank him at every corner. He doubted that he would survive very long at camp without massive humiliation at that point, Rosie was certainly a smart one. Once the sacrifice was obtained, he turned towards Kiera and gestured for her to follow him. Leading her through the camp and past all the cabins, he made a direct line for the rather imposing forest towards the rear of the camp. The Oracle's cave was hidden out here, not terribly deep into the forest but enough to be peaceful and secluded at times if need be. For that, he was jealous. People kept slamming into his cabin nearly all the time and gave him no privacy half the days he was at camp. Alas, that is the fate of a child of one of the Big Three.

"Trust me on this, we will be safe in this part of the camp's forest." He said calmly to Kiera, trying to give her a reassuring smile as he led her all the way to a cave in a small cliff. The entrance was flanked on each side by a magical torch, with a curtain over the entrance that somehow seemed to create a perfect seal. Once again, magic. Without even a moment of hesitation, Ryland walked forward to the cave and through the curtain. "Rosie? You awake? I brought somebody you need to meet, and a chocolate chip muffin so you better be awake!" He called with a playful grin on his features as he held the curtain open for Kiera to come join him.

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"Alright then." Kiera said giving a slight smile as she started to follow shortly behind him, and through some trees as they got further away from the campers. She would occasionally look at some of the campers who were in the woods going on about their business until they were at the entrance of a cave. Kiera crossed her arms a bit and looked at the cave entrance, before taking a step inside shortly after Ryland did, not to soon once Ryland had entered Rosie's cave. Ryland would trigger a little trap a bucket of ice cold water fell onto Ryland drenching him with cold water.

Kiera stood there and could help but smirk and started to laugh a little bit as the bucket was still on his head, a few seconds later Rosie came out from the corner of the cave and quickly took the chocolate chip muffin from his hand. "Thanks for the muffin." She said as she stepped back into the cave and sat down on her chair. Kiera would walk over and took the bucket off of his head and laughed a bit more. "It looks good on you."