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Leda rolled her eyes as Zeke offered to look at her hand. The cut wasn't that bad, it was nothing that a little ambrosia couldn't fix. The new girl, the daughter of Aphrodite, curiously seemed to have control over nature. That was something Leda was more used to seeing with the children of Demeter or Dionysus, but she supposed that it wasn't too odd. Demigods had random abilities sometimes and they didn't always make sense at first. She snickered a bit as her sister described Dionysus as crusty. "Oh I bet he's going to be chuffed at that," she teased, wondering if Mr. D would find out or not. She imagined that he would - eventually at least. One of the new kids was claimed by Hypnos and Leda resisted the urge to start teasing the girl and calling her Sleeping Beauty - that could wait for now.

"Mm, Manhattan?" Leda mused. It was an interesting idea. "Could be monsters there but sure, why not," she grinned. She'd be able to run them most of the way there hopefully - or they could swipe a car in order to give Leda a chance to catch her breath and slow down for a little while. It wasn't too far from Long Island either, nowhere near as far as they had had to travel to get Kiera and some of the other demigods what felt like less than a day ago. "Unless of course you're scared."

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As the last of the monsters perished, Arthur looked over to his half sister. "I didn't think to bring my dagger with me to lunch." He explained. Why would he have? Maybe it was commonplace around here to be armed at any given moment, but he hadn't picked up that habit. He thought that this was a safe place, so even with the looming threat of monsters, he didn't expect them to appear randomly. That being said, now that he'd been through this, he would be keeping it on him; This encounter taught him that.

With that in mind, he considered that he should learn how to get better with his knife, or at least some type of weapon. Summoning his skeletons was great and all, but a weapon might be a more reliable way of defending himself. Approaching Andy, he smiled over to her, "You seem to be getting a handle on things," he said kindly. He too, hadn't yet had a chance to eat much and continue to ask, "Would any of you mind if I joined you all back at the pavilion? I still need to finish eating as well." He mainly asked for Andy's sake, sure, they'd said they were okay, but that didn't mean they totally were.

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Athanasia rolled her eyes at Andy's older brother's antics. It was amusing in a charming way but in no way did it make him less strange. Though being able to shift into an elephant? Not there was something interesting! She absently wondered if he shifted into a skeleton if she could control him. Probably not as he wasn't dead. Giving Andy a sly grin she winked. "He's not wrong! You were amazing!"

Dismissing her skeletal bodyguard with a little wave and a thank you, the pale girl grinned impishly at her brother. "Dont worry, brother. I'll use it if you cant find a use for it!" She teased in reference to the dagger Arthur had been gifted with. "And some more tea sounds lovely. Then we train some more?" The question was aimed at Amdy but she glanced over at each respective brother in invitation.

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Theresa looked over at Andy for a moment when he said that he had forgotten his dagger, as far as she could tell stygian iron weapons didn't really change forms like the other weapons that they had could. "Yeah it'd be a good idea to have your weapon on you at all times." She said shrugging a little bit. As things started to quiet down and now it was just them now at the barrier entrance, she looked at Mona and patted her halfsister on the back. "I'm going to head over to our cabin for a little bit." She looked at Jade for a moment before turning around and perked up slightly when she overheard about heading out of the camp for a little bit. Which wasn't an uncommon thing, you could leave if you wanted to, but you did run the risk of running into monsters.

Tammy smirked and laughed slightly when Demetri started to imitate Zeke which was pretty entertaining to see him taking Zeke's appearance and shook her head slightly. "It'd be weird of she cursed the both of you to look like each other or switched places." She said with a laugh, turning to look over at Leda. "He would probably curse me into a dolphin or something he does make that threat a lot it feels like." Her eyes lit up she did want to get out of the camp for a little bit as well.

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Kristin stopped for a moment and moved over towards Janelle and looked at the vial of water in it as she started to get a closer look at it, she started to think for a moment. She wasn't really sure what it was either, but she did know that the god Hypnos did have something to do with the River of Lethe. "I think that's from the River of Lethe one of the rivers in the Underworld, which supposedly makes people forget or have some kind of memory loss." Kristin said as they started to get closer towards the Big House seeing that Mr. D was sitting on the front porch reading something. Kristin looked towards Jason and smiled slightly towards him and gave a slight nod they pretty much didn't have normal lives anymore at this point. "Oh yeah you will pretty much never have anything normal, being here is about the only normal you can get now. My mother is Athena by the way." She said.

Dionysus looked up seeing the two new faces, and rolled his eyes he really didn't like having to go through and training the new kids there were more than he was expecting this year. "Ugh more new ones." Mr. D said as he shook his head and went back to reading his book while enjoying the nice summer breeze coming through. "That is Dionysus, though we just call him Mr. D for short." Kristin said as Chiron offered both Janelle and Jason a seat on one of the chairs on the porch. "I am sure you two have a lot of questions before we begin with the tour." Chiron said.

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Keira looked at Leda when she joked towards her and laughed slightly shaking her head slightly. "Your talking to someone who made a makeshift trap in a large gym shed to kill a pack of cyclopes." Kiera said, as she watched Demetri as he teased Zeke a little bit, she had a feeling that it was just their own way of joking around. Tammy quickly moved her sister over to Kiera and smirked slightly before appearing next to Mona.

"We should totally just sneak out it'd be a lot of fun." Tammy suggested. Kiera blushed slightly and shook her head slightly she did think it'd be a good idea to just get out a little bit, she did learn a lot the last week with the training she'd been given. "Zeke can you patch her up?" Kiera asked him she was pretty sure he would be able to with no issue as well.

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With the fighting stopped, Mona faced the same situation she was in before. What did she do now? She was eager to get her hands dirty again, learn more about what she could and could not do. She saw little use in this Charmspeak or Love Manipulation, despite the fact it had worked during Capture the Flag, but perhaps she could use it on monsters? Get them to do her bidding and attack each other perhaps? It was worth a look.

She smiled at her sibling, one of the few she could stand, as she left to go back to the cabin. That was her deal, but Mona wanted a bit more. Everyone else seemed more or less in their own groups. She wondered if she was allowed to leave and if she had to be with someone else or armed or something. Come to think of it, did they have ANY adults watching over them? Not that she wanted that, but it stood to reason that summer camps usually had staff.

Then again, summer camps also didn't have monster attacks and campers with magic and weapons.

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Demetri's attention was momentarily grasped as he watched one of the two new kids get claimed. He recognized the symbol immediately from one of the old texts he used to read, only having it be confirmed by Chiron shortly after that she was indeed a child of Hypnos. As he stared on for moments longer while Andy was speaking to the other campers that came towards them, he began to think upon what she was given. A strange container filled with some sort of liquid. He racked his brain trying to find the answer when something clicked. It wasn't just some liquid, this had to be a vial filled with water from the River of Lethe. His leg began to jitter as he wondered if he should warn her not to drink it, it seemed like a odd thing to do, tell someone not to drink a strange liquid, it was almost obvious and thus made it seem like he would be patronizing her. As he bit his lower lip his attention was called back when Zeke spoke up to him. He didn't blush, but boy was he close to doing so.

There wasn't a clever retort, witty comeback, or simple jest he could think of to get him out of this one. Zeke had simply won this round, but that meant that card was now off the table. " Sounds more like a blessing on his end if you ask me. You may not like it Zeke-y but this is what peak male performance looks like" Demetri flexed showing off absolutely no muscle tone and just a pasty white arm. Hopefully that little bit of a hand Tammy gave him would help him back on top of the zingers. Before he knew it Kristin know it all Reynolds told the newbie of her new found forget me not. Well that clears that off the board for him at least. Demetri tussled Andy and Andy's hair as he walked past the two and headed for the pavilion. "Well this foods not going to eat itself...it is?"

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Ezekiel sighed when Leda rolled his eyes at him about the cut. ”Well I would but I won’t force it if she doesn’t want it and she doesn’t seem to want help from me,” Ezekiel told Kiera. ”She can go to the Big House and get some ambrosia or help from another Apollo kid if she wants it.” Ezekiel looked over at the walking encyclopedia and hung his head back, looking up at the sky and mouthed the word why. ”Do you ever not know something Kristen? Seriously, what is like when you don’t know something? Do you have a reset button? I should know this just encase your start to smoke out or twitch.”
He ran a hand through his hair and started walking with some of the others to the big house. He wasn’t terribly hungry anymore and with another set of new kids there might be a change in the days plans. Plus there would need to be a debriefing of some sort of the attack on the barrier, Ezekiel thought. May as well head to the Big House and Mr. D to see what was what.

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"Alright then," she said with a bit of a laugh towards Kristen, "Guess I definitely won't drink it, since I don't like the idea of losing my memory at all." With that, she made to follow Chiron, figuring that it would probably be better off if they just followed along while they were able to, or more of before something even crazier happened all of a sudden. Though when she started walking one way, her brother grabbed her somewhat by the arm, as she had inadvertently started heading in the opposite direction.

"Wrong way Jane," Jason said to his sister with a bit of a laugh, before looking over at Kristen and giving her a smile. "Yeah, well a normal life is so incredibly boring anyway, who would want that really? Nah, having to fight monsters in order to survive definitely sounds way better," he said, before he led his sister after Chiron towards the Big House. Her cane was essentially bent completely, meaning they'd either have to see about getting her a new one or unbending it in some way. So for now he was essentially guiding her to make things easier.

Janelle went along a bit with her brother, figuring that for once in her life it would be simpler just to go along with things as opposed to arguing and saying that she can do things on her own. After all, she had started wandering off in the wrong direction. She figured that her brother could at least ensure that she got from point a to point b at this rate, so she trusted him as he led her to the Big House. Hearing Kristen explain that there was a literal god at the camp was a bit shocking considering how Kristen's words sounded to her, but she didn't say anything as she took a seat in one of the chairs.

"...Right, since having a god around is perfectly normal," he muttered under his breath towards Kristen with a bit of an eye roll, before turning to look at Chiron. "Uh, right... People mentioned that this was a place full of Demigods or whatever, and that was about it... So any explanation beyond that would be helpful... Like what the hell those things were that attacked us would be one thing that would be nice to know... Or really why those things were trying to kill us in the first place..."

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Mary looked over at the two younger campers, Arthur and Andy of course. She didn't really know Arthur all too well, but she figured if the kid was friends with Andy, he couldn't be all that bad. She glanced back at the new campers who were being led off towards the Big House with Chiron and Kristen, she figured they pretty much had a handle on the newbies. As for sticking around with the kids, she figured that she might want to go check on Leda who might have been injured in that fight, with all of the chaos she wasn't too sure. "I'll let you guys go, see you later Andy," she said with a slight wave before heading over towards the others.

"So, sounds like you got beaten up a bit now didn't you Leda? Or something of the sort if you ended up going over to Zeke of all people to heal you?" Mary teased her friend ever so slightly. "You are okay though aren't you? Hopefully you didn't get yourself banged up too badly." She was genuinely concerned about her friend, figuring that she likely wouldn't still be racing around or cracking jokes if she was injured horribly. Hell she probably wouldn't even still be conscious if that was the case.

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"I don't mind Arthur." She smiled at him and turned to Mary to say goodbye to her with a wave. She then nodded at Ash confirming their earlier plan to train was on. Andy was a little concerned about Leda, who was her friend too, but she didn't want to get in the way. So instead she started back toward the dining pavilion. As she walked she tried to remember what Leda had told her about Hypnose at the shrines.

She wracked her brain but didn't remember anything about that god. Maybe Leda hadn't gone over them? Andy looked up at Demetri, she knew he had knowledge of the Greek gods from before coming to camp. "Who is Hypnose?" She asked him, hoping he could tell her. The other option was to wait until Leda was free and ask her.

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Arthur brightened up at getting the okay from Andy, strolling along next to her on the way to the dining pavilion. As for his half sister's invitation, he gave a nod, "That sounds good to me, after that attack, I think it might be a good idea." Now that he knew that even this place wasn't totally safe, that lit a fire under him to do whatever he could to make sure he could stay alive. Particularly, he might double back and get his dagger after eating, thinking he may as well sharpen up his skills with that.

As for Andy's question, though it wasn't directed at him, he was happy to say that he actually knew a thing or two about this. Burying himself in the Greek mythos afforded him a bit of knowledge, and it just so happened that that overlayed with the fabled god of sleep. He looked over to Andy, and remarked, "He's the God of Sleep, and more powerful than that sounds. According to legend, he knocked out Zeus to deliver a message to Poseidon during the Trojan War." That felt like a weird sentence to say out loud, talking about the gods as real people, and legends as historical events, but nevertheless, that was apparently fact.

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Leda let her sword, Ultraviolet, shift back into a pendant and she placed her necklace around her neck. She snickered a bit at the mention of the dolphin curse threat - of all the animals and monsters they could be turned into, dolphins weren't that bad in her opinion. It wasn't like someone was coming along and turning them into a cow. Kiera's brag was impressive, but then again, most demigods here could claim something similar, just under a different set of weird and deranged circumstances. "Alright, alright, alright - we'll sneak out!" Leda gave in, rolling her eyes slightly. "And geez, Mum, I'm fine," she protested. Her wound wasn't that bad and she didn't want to get help from Zeke anyways. "I literally have some ambrosia with me anyways, pretty sure."

Then Mary decided to tease her about going to Zeke. "No, I did not!" she protested. "Let the record show that I did not go to Zeke, I said I was fine, and my horrible sister here decided to go to the donkey's arse of the Apollo Cabin," Leda complained. She didn't really find Tammy to be horrible, but she could be frustratingly annoying at times. "It's really just a cut, I'm fine, honest," she tried to reassure Mary. "Though if another person asks if I'm okay, I might go a wee bit mental."

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"Is there anyway I can do something to help with... everything?" She said quickly as she started to walk after Zeke. Seeing as he didn't seem to need to do any major healing, but more or less knew what was going on around camp at the moment. Plus, he was kinda nice to her so she wanted to try to help him out. Especially after that attack, since she got the odd feeling that wasn't exactly a regular occurence at the camp. At least she certainly hoped it wasn't.

Clutching her little spellbook close to her chest, she was happy she had started to figure out a bit of how she could use it. It was super cool shooting out a fireball to help protect her friends instead of feeling completely useless! As Jade walked along next to Zeke waiting for his response on what exactly she could really do to help out. She wondered if she would eventually be able to learn more about different spells. Could she learn how to heal or protect others from getting hurt, or even permanent sight instead of having to cast alot? That would be really nice.

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Ash for whatever reason decided to try and summon a skeleton out of boredom maybe? Or for whatever reason she was successful for the most part though it came out without a head. Chatters suddenly leaped out of Ash's little loop thing that kept him on her and attached itself onto the headless skeleton. "Time to kill a bitch!" He said, as he took a knife out and started to stab her fifty times. "Ohh la.." Was the last words that Ash said, before Chatters slit her throat and she dropped dead looking at those around him and ripped her head off of her body. Before he was swallowed up by the ground, leaving behind Ash's headless body behind.

Tammy just stared at the scene unfold and then looked at the others who were there. "Honestly I didn't like the Hades girl at all." She said with a slight shrug and looked towards her sister and nodded, Zeke was also pretty annoying in her opinion, as she gave a few little kicks to Ash's now dead body. "I'll go and get packed up then for the little trip to the city." Tammy said, as she sped off to the Iris Cabin.

There was a tap on Jade's shoulder as it was Annabelle again since the fighting seemed to have stopped now which was good, and there wasn't really anything else going on. "Want to see if I can do that spell for you to see again?" She offered out of boredom, and there wasn't really anything else going on.

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As the others made it back to the dining pavilion there were a few harpies that were there cleaning up the mess that was there, and putting away the dirty dishes to be cleaned. Sadly they had already pretty much cleaned up the rest of the dishes so all the leftovers were now pretty much gone now at this point as well. Alannah was finishing up cleaning up as well and helping with the clean up as well, there was always a large mess after tending to 200 some demigods that were there took a bit to clean up.

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Mr. D looked over at Jason as he started to ask some questions, he really didn't like answering so many questions to new demigods and looked towards Chiron before speaking. "Basically you are very tasty to monsters, your scent draws and attracts them to you. So basically what you do here is learn and train." Mr. D answered as he went back to his drink chugging down the coke that was in his hand, still annoyed with it not being wine at all. "What he means is we offer you a safe haven, and train you to become the next generation of heroes like in the Greek Myths of old." Chiron said.

Then there was a sudden burst of what felt like heat and the symbol of Ares appeared over Jason's head, as Kristin looked towards him. "Looks like your father is Ares, the god of war." Kirstin said as she looked over towards Zeke and started to roll her eyes towards him, she may have gone on a quest with him and Leda in the past he was still really annoying. "And my knowledge has saved your ass from doing stupid things to." Kristin said with a slight laugh, she knew she wasn't liked by some of the others since she was really smart and all. Chiron looked at Janelle's bent cane, he was pretty sure they could fix it or give her a new one. "We can get you a new cane if you'd like, seems like it's been through the ringer." Chiron offered.

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Kiera laughed slightly and nodded. "Alright then no Zeke healing for you." She said, as she watched just in time for Ash's skull buddy to suddenly take a skeleton body she had tried to summon and instantly turned on it. Her eyes going wide as she watched the skeleton killing her, Kiera was actually glad to see that happen, she really didn't like Ash secretly she did always find her a little bit to annoying. Kiera put her two swords back into their pendant forms as well like Leda's.

"Well that was an interesting show." Kiera finally said while looking over at Mona since they had all gone to the same school together, but she had a feeling that Mona didn't like her to much either. "So, should we get ready or something?" Kiera was really wanting to get out of the camp for a few hours at least which was a really good idea right about now.

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Before Mona could interject herself into any of the conversations happening, a headless had suddenly appeared. Wondering if this was, perhaps, another attack, Mona got ready to fight, but in a matter of moments, the skeleton had ahead in the form of some animal that attacked Ash, stabbing her until the girl fell to the ground. Mona stood watching in some form of horror as her former classmate was killed and left dead on the ground while the other campers around her either didn't care or didn't mind.

She may have been fucked up, but this was another level.

She wasn't her best friend, but they had gone to school together. Interacted in some form or another. And now she was dead. If anything, this highlighted how dangerous all of this was. Mona shook it off, or tried to, as Kiera came over to her. "You could say that. I'd call it incredibly fucked up." She let it go, for now. The girl deserved someone caring about her death, at least. "Yeah, let's get moving. I'm now itching to hit something really hard now."

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Ezekiel stood on the deck of the Big House, looking over at Mr. D and the others as he debriefed them a bit more. The symbol of Ares appeared over Jason’s head and Ezekiel nodded approvingly before Kristin spoke up. He rolled his eyes at her and walked into the Big House to check on inventory or something. He just needed to get away from her and all the people. Ezekiel was pretty outgoing and a big flirt but every once in awhile a guy just needed some alone time. No one had gotten seriously hurt at the barrier fight so Ezekiel would most likely get some peace for a while unless a headless body showed up needing to be buried. Like that would happen.
Ezekiel shuffled to his usual work station and went through his supplies. He pulled out his medical notebook and took stalk of what he had. Having it all written down in front of him would help him remember what supplies he needed to gather from storage to top off. As he worked, Ezekiel pulled out his iPod and headphones, hitting play before he stuck the things over his head and tuned out the world a little bit. Maybe he would go for a swim later or try his hand a little song writing.

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The last words Demetri could hear was the sound of Zeke complaining about Kristin's smarts. To an extent Demetri, reluctantly, agreed to what Zeke was saying. She did seem to take pride in her knowledge, which honestly good for her so long as it doesnt get her bullied, teased, or generally rub others the wrong way. The most it was doing know was making Demetri uncomfortable at the thought that he actually agreed with that blonde haired Apollo boy. Gross. His thoughts were snapped back when Andy asked him about Hypnos, she'd come to the right guy. He practically knew all there was to know about him, but before he could even speak Arthur decided to chime in and say something. All he could do was smile as he tussled Arthur's hair. "You're not wrong there, but to be fair it doesn't take much to trick Zeus. Hell Prometheus did it as well and it didnt even require anything more than actual wit. Hypnos is however a Primordial, so he's definitely not one to mess with, and that vial she received looks to contain water from the River of Lethe, itll cause any who drink from it to lose their memories so best to stay away. He's also said to be the father of Morpheus who you may of heard of more. All in all not a bad parent to be with I'd say. Then again any is great if they give you these awesome gifts."

They were too far away to have witnessed the assault by chatters, too far to hear the sounds of her death, and too far to be able to act on it or help her. This was probably for the best, had Demetri seen anyone defile the corpse...it wouldn't be a pretty sight. As they neared the cafeteria and saw the Harpies cleaning up, he clapped his hands onto Andy's left shoulder and Arty's right before he started singing with Monas voice. "So you wanna be a hero kid well, whooptie doo." His eyes went wide as he realized the wrong sound came out and he cleared his throat before shifting his voice back onto his own and then sitting upon a table top. "Well that wasn't supposed to happen. Anyways, this camp seems a bit dangerous, start carrying your dagger around with you ok? And both of you, I have a bit of training with both daggers and swords. If you'd like I can teach you a thing or two about how to use them." He gave the pair a coy wink before continuing on "Now I'd rather you not be in melee range of any of these monsters but...its better to have a skill and not use it than to need a skill and not have it. So what do you say?"

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Andy was glad Arthur knew who Hypnos was and for the short and easy explanation. She had been in the lead, and much too far away from the barrier to see what happened to Ash, which was for the best. She was turning to talk to her though and was confused that she wasn't there. "I always have my dagger." Andy said holding up her wrist with the bracelet on it. "Too bad yours isn't hidable." She said to Arthur.

"Where is Ash? She was right behind us right?" Andy frowned. Not completely taking in what her brother had said about Hypnos, though the word Primordial did catch her attention since she didn't know what it meant. The harpies had annoyingly cleaned up Lunch already so there was nothing to do about getting the rest of her meal. "You two go-ahead to the arena I'll meet you there. I'm going to find Ash." She turned around and started back the way they had come.

Finding Ash's headless discarded corpse had not been on her list of things to do. Ever.

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Jason was not too thrilled about the way Mr. D was essentially talking to them, but considering he was one of the Greek Gods, it was somewhat understandable in reality. This sort of thing probably did get annoying after a while, but he could have been a bit nicer about things. Hearing Chiron's explanation of things definitely showed that he seemed to be the nicer of the two by a landslide. He wasn't too sure if he wants to be there in front of Mr. D any longer then what was necessarily possible.

Janelle was just listening in on the words that were being spoken around her, thinking carefully about things and just taking in the information around her. Some people would think that her lack of sight would be a hindrance when it came to fighting or anything of the sort like that, however she was one of those who tried to prove people wrong. Prove that she was perfectly capable of helping others and not causing too many problems when possible. She was determined to be helpful no matter what.

Her brother looked as a symbol of sorts appeared over his head, not sure whose symbol it was supposed to be. Good thing he didn't need to really know, as Kristen filled him in on whose symbol that was. "Fun, the god of war, that's certainly an interesting development," he said towards Kristen with a slight shrug, before hearing her address Zeke. He managed to fight back a laugh as Zeke went inside the house, and he didn't say anything else.

Hearing Chiron's words referring to her cane, she moved her free hand along the bent edges of it and shrugged slightly. "It does not matter either way to me... I can still move around somewhat without it, however I think it would be useful to have it repaired... Or maybe just a new one in general that doesn't bend so easily if I have to hit something... It got bent since I smacked one of the Empousas around with it..." she said simply with a shrug, though she wasn't sure what to say about her brother apparently being the son of Ares.

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"Alright alright I get it I get it, you are fine, I was just asking, no need to sound like you are going crazy princess," Mary said with a slight eye roll towards Leda, teasing her slightly by calling her princess. Since her full nickname was Princess Rainbow Unicorn in her mind, just now wasn't the time probably to call her that. "And I didn't think you'd go to Zeke ever Leda, so I understand that. Just calm down slightly, okay?" she said, giving her friend a smile.

She then heard the mentions of sneaking out or something, and that caused Mary to raise an eyebrow at her. "What is this that you people are going on about sneaking out of camp? You all thinking about heading off somewhere away from here?" she asked, looking at Leda and Kiera. It wouldn't surprise her honestly if they did sneak out, since Leda could run around and out of here at super speed and not have anything really matter or whatever. Her eyes widened however when she looked over to see what happened to Ash, and she was somewhat speechless at the fact. The girl was a bit of a weirdo sure, but still, that was definitely not a fun way to go at all.

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Leda's breath caught in her throat and she was paralyzed temporarily, unable to swoop in and save the daughter of Hades with her speed. Just like everyone else there, she could only just watch the horrific act. The blood went everywhere, with the dead creature stabbing the poor girl what must have been fifty times or more. Her knees felt weak and it was just about everything Leda could do to not scream at the sight. Sure, she had seen some horrible things, she was a demigod but... This was a little girl. She could hardly believe it as her sister, Tammy, dismissed what had happened - as if Ash had just tripped and not been brutally killed. Kiera reacted similarly, acting like nothing serious had just gone on.

"Are you bloody joking?" Leda asked, incredulous. "All of you, really, a little girl just died and you're acting like it's the Queen's Jubilee!" Mona at the very least seemed to react like a normal human being and Mary, from what Leda could tell, was shocked. "I don't think I fancy going into town at the mo'," she told them all bluntly, scooping up Ash's body into her arms and getting blood all over her shirt. She couldn't find Ash's head and she took off with a loud BOOM as she rushed to the Big House, finding a secluded room where she set down Ash's corpse gently.

"Chiron! Mr. D! In here!" she shouted, hoping they'd come. At the very least, Ash's body was away from the prying eyes of the younger campers. She didn't want them to be exposed to that sort of thing.

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Rebecca had been in the woods where they played Capture the Flag, communing with nature. So many people wrongly thought of the magic as some dark force, connected with demonic spirits and the screaming souls of the deceased. It was so much more than that - it was multifaceted, balancing the darkness with the light. Just as Rebecca could whisper to the dead, she too appreciated being amongst the flowers and giving thanks to the earth for all of her gifts and wonders. Her nature retreat of sorts had just ended and she had made her way back to camp. She thought for a moment about getting something to eat, but the harpies were likely cleaning up by now. She might as well head on over to the Big House and see what potions they needed her to replenish in the infirmary.

Dressed in black with a pull-over, she gently knocked on the wood paneling outside the infirmary to announce her entrance. Some of the children of Hecate had a bad habit of sneaking up on people - Rebecca considered it a courtesy to Zeke. "Hey, I'm going to be brewing quite a bit tonight at the witching hour... What potions do you need?" she asked, assuming she had gotten his attention. She stepped over the threshold and ran a hand through her hair, contemplating braiding it for a moment but she didn't quite feel like putting the effort in. "If you need any plants, I don't mind going through the woods to collect them - the energy is very peaceful there at the moment."

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Arthur felt as if Demetri was condescending towards him at first, and didn't much appreciate that. He understood it was coming from a place of experience, him having been aware of his demigod-hood a lot long that Arty had, but it still irked him. Nevertheless, he wasn't one to turn down assistance from somebody who actually knew what they were talking about. As such, he nodded curtly, saying, "I'd appreciate that, thanks." and tacking on, "I'll make sure to have it from now on, for sure."

He gave a surprised look at Andy, and realized that, indeed, Ash had been left behind from the group. "Alright, you know where to find us." He knew Ash could take care of herself, and they both didn't need to run back to get her. In the meantime, Demetri had said something that confused him a little bit. "I'm sorry, what exactly is a Primordial?" as far as his personal studying had brought him, that was out of scope for hih. It certainly was a cool name, and something he very much wanted to hear about.