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@Kirah@Morose Joanie flew and landed gracefully onto Nancy's shoulder, the little dragon would give Nancy's cheek a loving nuzzle and letting out a low sound almost like a growl but it was more akin to a purr. Hercules looked at the newcomer he looked at Niah for a moment and gave her a friendly wave and smile. "Hello!" Hercules said happily as he looked at the two for a moment and got the feeling that they needed sometime alone as Nancy started to head out of the woods the cyclopes went back to gathering wood. "See you all later it was nice meeting you two!" He said happily as he grabbed more wood.

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"If you two want to do training thats fine or we can go for a walk as well to if thats what you two prefer doing as well to whichever better for the two of you." Kristin said as she walked down towards the arena where mostly everyone was doing their training usually with all of the target dummies and training weapons as well to. As Stella followed them towards the training area she would see a cloak flying down towards her from a gust of wind which would land right into Stella. For Andy and Kristin they would notice some parts of Stekka were visible while others werent.

Kristin looked at Stella for a moment and then at Andy everyone in camp had some sort of magic item of some kind either a weapon or something else that aided them with their quest. "Thats actually pretty cool, maybe it was a gift from your mother or something like that it'll be really useful." Kristin said thinking that it was maybe a gift from her parents or something along those lines.

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Kiera started to think for a moment if there was something like that there was only one thing that came to mind but that was a long time ago way before her time. "There was a guy named Luke Castelan a son of Hermes he started an uprising with some other demigods and worked for Kronos years ago. Our half-brother Percy was able to beat him during that time." Kiera answered Sera, though she didn't know if there was something like that happened with the Romans or not. "Hows your breakfast by the way?" She asked looking over at her sister giving her a smile.

Isaac nodded as he started to finish eating the rest of his breakfast as he looked at her when she said she wanted to go for a walk, they were always really good. "We could go for a walk to the beach thats usually pretty relaxing I do that if I need to think or something like that. Do you want some company or do you need sometime by yourself?" Isaac asked Janelle, usually walks along the shore were really peaceful and the water washing up against the beach was always perfect to.

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Madalyne smiled slightly as she started to think about it a little bit more she really did want to go on a vacation of some kind as she looked at Leda. "I was thinking maybe heading to the UK where i'm originally from, its been a really long time since i've been there honestly." Madalyne said, Nancy and Niah knew where she was originally from and how she ended up being trapped in the Lotus Hotel and Casino it was a real long time ago and she was curious how her home had changed over the last several years.

Madalyne slowly finished up eating the rest of her rabbit, she had managed to hunt down an extra one that they could share, she set that into her pack. Things that ended up in the Labyrinth sometimes ended up falling down here, they were lucky to find two backpacks during their time in here. "Shall we head out once you are finished?" Madalyne asked as she slowly started to stand up looking at Leda, she hoped that today would be the day that they would get out of here finally.

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Ezekiel held onto Demetri, half listening to him speak. What Demi said did make a lot of sense. Dwelling wasn’t going to give him any more time with Nancy, and he was ruining what little time he did have left. Ezekiel buried his head into Demetri’s neck, holding on tightly until he started to feel a little better. Zeke pulled back and smirked at Demi.

”When did you become so good with words? I thought that was only for Apollo kids,” Zeke said and ruffled Demetri’s hair after letting him go. Zeke reclaimed Demetri’s hand in his and walked to the tables of food.

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"What if we walk and then we train? Stella and I can walk, and then I'll join for training? And she can do something else?" Andy offered as an option of what to do. She watched the cape land next to Stella.

She had received mysterious gifts before as well so it wasn't the weirdest thing. It was how she had a spell book, which she didn't use as often now that Mads wasn't there to teach her. She also didn't use the metal balls anymore cause that had been Arthur's thing more than hers. He had controlled the balls and she had electrocuted them. That had been a good combo.

Andy plastered a smile on her face. "Cool! I wonder what it does." It was obvious the cloak was Stella's so she waited to see what Stella would do with it. She scratched Chocolate's ears as she watched her friend.



Niah waved at the Cyclopse that seemed to be nice, odd. She then followed Nancy. Niah felt like she had done something to upset Nancy. She wasn't sure what it was, but Nancy seemed mad. Was it because Niah had interrupted her morning?

Niah wanted to talk to Nancy. Wanted to say so much to her. Tell her about her own vision of Dalisy. Something. Talk to her friend like they used to. But so much had changed. "I miss you." She thought, but didn't voice. Niah just followed after Nancy as she led the way back to the Roman camp.

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Demetri couldn't help but smile. The gentle curl of his lips turned partway into a grinding as Zeke buried his head into his neck and spoke. He had half a mind to say something. Some quick witted joke about how perhaps he'd gotten so wise because he'd had a bit of Apollo's kid in him. But he didn't want to spoil the moment. Not yet anyways. So he held on in silence for a bit longer before pulling away partly, shrinking his head into his shoulders as Zeke ruffled his hair. ”Oi don't mess with the hair, it hard to make it look perfectly disheveled like a hobbit who's cared less.” He said with a bit of a laugh before taking Zeke's lead over to grab some food. He took his tray, a bowl of white rice with several vegetables on top and an egg appearing with another filled with pork belly.

Demetri begrudgingly dropped more than just fat in today, like he usually did, and instead gave Zeus an actual offering of food that wasn't meant as an insult. He offered a silent prayer, asking his father, begging really, for him to back off. He didn't know what deal he'd made with Aphrodite, but he didn't want them meddling into his love life. After that he joined Kiera and Sera, pulling Zeke along. ”Aaaand we're back. Miss us much? Who am I kidding of course you did. Who wouldn't? Zeke's amazing. So what's on the agenda for today? And please don't make it boring or political. What I need is fun.”

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"I don't mind doing some training instead of going for a walk, just as long as it doesn't wipe me out too much. I do want to do some gardening today as well." Stella smiled softly as she looked at Andy, and noticed that she looked embarrassed. "Hey, it is okay that you got mixed up... it happens to us all from time to time." She offered her friend a small smile at that point and then listened to Andy as she spoke. "Oh, walk then training also sounds good to me! That way we get to do all three things!"

She grinned wider at that point when a cloak floated down and seemed to land on her, and then wrap around her a bit. As it did, it seemed to make her vanish for a moment from view. She gently unwrapped it from around herself, and folded it up in her hands. "Oh wow... this will come in handy... for what is to come. I'm sure." She remembered that they were probably going to go to the Underworld next... at least that was what she had heard someone say.

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She listened carefully to Kiera explain. "Oh well... sure hope something similar doesn't happen again. That'd be a big problem Im sure. Mostly if like another uh Titan gets involved with it like Kronos. Bet that was a huge war to battle." Causing an uprising against your family, rather bonkers if you asked Sera's opinion on such a matter. She never liked family fights anyhow. If regular people were bad arguing and fighting....she couldn't picture what a fight between demigods, gods, and titans would be like. Sounded super brutal. "The breakfast is really good today. I mean it always is pretty good so can't complain about that. How's yours?"

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She thought about Isaac's suggestion of where to go, and she thought that it did sound nice. A walk down by the beach, hearing the sounds of the water and waves. It was always a sort of nice place to be. And it wasn't super crowded or anything like that, which was a good thing at the moment still for her. Janelle preferred the calm and quiet still, too much noise was overwhelming to her and the peacefulness of the beach was always nice.

Hearing his other question, asking if she'd want company or something like that, she sort of nodded her head a bit, "Yeah, I wouldn't mend sahme cahmpany ahr anythin, and a walk by de beach sounds great," she said with a slight smile. Walks always were better to go on with others, as long as there would be too many people going. So that was fine with her.

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@Kirah@Morose Joanie looked over at Niah for a moment before flying over and landing onto her shoulders and gently nuzzled her wanting some attention and pets clearly. As the two of them walked back towards the Roman side of the camp, they were still doing their usual duties. Everything around camp was pretty quiet right now for the post part, Niah would be able to see the cyclops again as he walked up to the two of them. "Do you two need anything at all? I can help if you need it." Hercules said to Niah wanting to be useful he did look pretty bored as well to. Over on his back they would see all of the sticks and wood that he had collected out in the woods as well to

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"Yeah we can go for a walk thats totally fine with me, where would you two like to walk to? We could do the strawberry picking afterwards to if you two want." Kristin said as she continued to follow the two of them as they walked, the cloak that Stella had gotten would be really useful for sure especially if they were going to be sneaking around or something. "So do you two like it here being at camp that is?" Kristin asked Andy and Stella.

Andy had been at Camp Half-Blood for awhile now she had been through a lot as well to over the last couple of months. Kristin started to head over towards the hiking trail, which took up quiet a bit of the camp and eventually would lead over to the beach as well to. The weather was actually pretty nice for a walk around camp as well to which was good.

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"My breakfast is pretty good actually." Kiera said to her sister giving her a smile her attention turned back to see Demi and Zeke coming back to join them. "Nope we didn't miss the two of you at all either." Kiera said teasingly as she gently pushed out two of the chairs for the two of them to join. And as if right on queue Demi would be able to hear the familiar voice of his betrothed Alexios he had been busy the last few weeks helping out where he could. "Oooh Demi hi!" Alexios said happily as he came over and pushed Zeke out of the way and gave Demi a hug. "How has my husband to be been?" He asked Demi, while giving Zeke the stinky eye as he looked back at him.

Isaac smiled towards Janelle and nodded towards her. "To the beach it is then." He said to her as Isaac finished up eating the rest of his breakfast and got up offering his hand to his half sister to help her up if she wanted to take it. His eyes wandered over to the loud voice seeing a face he hadn't seen before hugging Demi he wasn't aware of the new camper or anything really but he seemed to know Demi pretty well and clearly didn't like Zeke at all.

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"That's a cool cloak!" Andy exclaimed when she realized what the cloak could do. She knew of some items others had that could impart invisibility, or in like Niah's case she had a sword that was invisible itself. "It definitely will come in handy." Things that impart invisibility were always useful.

"The beach?" Andy suggested as they started that direction. Andy liked the ocean. It wasn't like Kiera, she couldn't control the water. She just thought it was pretty. Andy thought a bit as they walked toward the trail. "Do you know what the Underworld is like? What we will see there?" She was partially thinking about Arthur, and how long it had been since they had seen each other. She missed him. But she was also worried about their upcoming quests.

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"Oh shit, where're you from exactly?" Leda asked, her interest piqued - she hadn't quite caught Madalyne's accent before, but she could hear it now. She'd been born in Los Angeles, but had grown up in Southern England, raised by her grandparents. "I'm from Southampton," she added. She'd grown up with beautiful views of the water, so close to the sea. She missed it, some times - wished that she could've gone back, that she'd go back to her home country. But just as much as she was English, she was also Greek - so just as she dreamed about Southampton, she dreamed of Athens.

It wasn't long until she'd finished her food - she tended to not savor the food here too much, mostly because it tasted pretty mid on a good day, and horrible on all the rest. Leda nodded, standing up and stretching out her arms and legs, loosening them up to relieve some of the stiffness. "Yeah, let's get a move on. Hop on and I'll run us," Leda said, bending down slightly so Mads could climb onto her back. It was tedious moving any slower.

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Niah was silent as they walked from the woods back to camp proper. Nancy could feel Niah's eyes on her back, burning with judgment. She shouldn't have been in the woods that morning, she ought to have been attending to her duties as praetor. She shouldn't have been on the edge of shattering at any given moment, she ought to be stronger for Rome, for Mads, for everyone - everyone and everything was depending on her and she could not falter. And Niah knew it. Niah saw Nancy's failure.

The cyclops followed them back, offering to help if needed. Nancy opened her mouth, about to snap and tell him that she needed nothing from a monster like him, but she thought better of it. It was Leandra's trial. Additional strength wouldn't be amiss. "How would you feel about beating the shit out of someone should they try to escape or fuck up their trial?" Nancy asked, completely serious, as they made it back to the Roman side of camp - and she continued on towards where Leandra was being held. "Potentially killing them."

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Zeke followed Demetri happily, feeling a bit better about the day. He gathered up his breakfast, getting some extra sausages and offered them to fire for his father before he sat next to Demi. The compliments Demi showered Zeke with made him smirk and roll his eyes.

He greeted Sera and Kiera again, and was just starting to eat a piece of sausage when he heard a horrible sound. Zeke looked over to see Alexios strutting over like he owned the camp. Alexios shoved Zeke out of the way and the demi-god leveled the god with a glare that could burn. At least Zeke wished it would.

So much for a pleasant morning.

Ezekiel turned to concentrate on his meal in an effort to ignore the ass trying to weasel their way into his relationship with Demetri. As much as Zeke wanted to punch the god in the face again, he had doubts his survival rate would remain the same. No, it was better to let Demetri handle the ignorant prick. Then Zeke could have his fun with Demi later.

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"I'll make sure to leave a nice offering for mom later for the gift then... Super handy." Stella smiled softly as she moved to gently fold up the cloak and tuck it away in her little bag, since she had brought it with her. She had planned to garden so she had her garden tools on her, so it made sense that she would bring her own supplies to do so. Arbor followed them all and kept close to them all. "Let's go to the beach then."

"Oh yeah, I'm liking it here at camp, even if I am missing some things... like being able to see my otou-san's flower instagram. I really wish we could interact with technology more. But the gardening here is amazing! And the sights, the creatures, the strawberries! Oh the strawberries are amazing!" She turned with the group towards the beach as they all walked together, happy for the reprieve from her reoccurring nightmares, and the upcoming quest to the Underworld.

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She was about to speak up to answer but raised a brow instead at this new comer. "Husband to be? I thought uh you two where a thing." Speaking softly, looking between Demi and Zeke with confusion. Man being at camp sure did open her up to new things she didn't expect to see. First monsters, then meeting a god that was her father, now this. Sera's heard of relationships that were an agreement of people dating more than just one partner. Yet...Alexios really seemed to not like Zeke and vice versa that was for sure. "Um...do I say congratulations or no?" Her quiet shyness had come back since she was feeling slightly awkward with how the atmosphere felt thick with anger.

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She had to stop herself from laughing at what she could hear with regards to Alexios popping up when he did again. Alexios seemed alright at least to her for the most part, plus it was amusing to her how much he messed with Zeke and Demetri for the most part. They seemed to be causing a bit of chaos over there so, which was more amusing to her than anything really at this point.

Janelle noticed that Isaac was ready to head out, and she accepted his hand to get up, and was glad to be heading out and all now. "Alright, let's see about 'eadin out, gettin a lettle loud and all 'ere anyway," she said to Isaac, clearly referring to the chaos around Zeke, Demi and Alexios and all. Heading to the beach would be way more calming than being around in this chaotic mess and drama that seemed to be going over there now.

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”It's written all over your faces. You missed us, can't even hide it. It's cute really.” Demi teased further until he heard a familiar voice apparate from behind him. As he turned to look, he saw Alexios budging his way past Zeke and towards him with a welcoming hug. Demi immediately backed up, hands up and to his sides as if to state not to touch him yet, a plate of food held in one hand. ”Oi hands off the merchandise when it's carrying food Party Boi. If I lose any more I'll be a smidge upset. Bad enough my dead beat dad cant even appreciate an offering” He said, the last part muttered under his breath. ”Besides, I've told you two you need to get along.” Demi said pointedly as he held a fork in one hand, using it to point at the pair of them as he swung it left and right.

”Aaaand if I recall I had asked you, oh wonderful betrothed, to search for Thanatos so that we can speak to him. So either you've come here to tell me you've completed the task at hand and the God of Death is hot on your heels, or you're slacking off from the one thing I asked you to help me with.” All the while that he spoke, Demi didn't once stop moving. Having placed his plate on the table between where Alexios and Zeke stood, pulling a chair to his left and placing a hand on Zeke's shoulders to sit him down, before pulling a chair to his right for Alexios to sit as Demi waved to the spot, taking a third seat in the middle of the two before stabbing at his pork belly with a fork and plopping one in his mouth before looking towards Sera at his first statement and then back to Alexios. ”I'd save the congrats till after his answer. So which is it? Failure? Or Success? Did you find Thanatos and will he speak to us?”

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@Kirah@Morose Hercules thought for a moment he did know how to fight if needed as he looked at Nancy's offer as the monster thought it over. "If you need some muscle sure I could help." Hercules said, the trail had been set for an hour from now as the Romans saw Nancy coming by they all dropped what they were doing and gave her a salute, once she had passed them they quickly went back to work. Once Niah and Nancy had entered the tent Leandra was put back into her cell after having her time out of the cell she sat there quietly Joanie would fly over landing on a nearby table sniffing around for some food clearly hungry right now.

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"Yeah the area is getting a little bit to noisy even for me." Isaac said with a smile as he started to lead her out of the dining pavilion and over towards the trail that would lead them over towards the beach. He could hear Kristin, Stella and Andy talking it seemed like they were heading for the same area as well to. "So what do you usually like to do when you are at the beach?" Isaac asked Janelle as he continued to lead the way over there. "Personally I always liked just laying under the sun and relaxing." Isaac really wasnt all that active when it came to things like sports and training even.

"Well if you decide you could always visit your family at anytime really some people here are part time campers and go back home, while others stay here full time." Kristin said to Stella as she looked down at Arbor and smiled gently reaching down to pet the cute little plant wolf pup thing. Kristin's attention turned towards Andy for a moment and shook her head slightly she had never really been to the Underworld before. "I sadly can't say what it looks like i've never been there myself before." Kristin answered Andy's question as they started to get closer towards the beach now as it could be seen just down the trail now from where they had been walking.

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"Well aren't you a party pooper." Alexios said with a slightly annoyed sigh as he went over and sat down at a chair and looked over at Demi and the others that were there. "Yes, yes I did your task and found Thanatos he's going to meet y'all later this evening in Central Park in New York." Alexios told Demi as he leaned back in his seat while looking at Demi. "So how about that hug and kiss now since I was a good boy and did it all for you?" Alexios asked giving Demi a little smile.

Kiera had known about the whole thing when she had finished her quest with Sera shortly after they all had gotten home as she looked at the others. "At least we have a meeting and time now." Kiera said and hopefully they'll be able to find her girlfriend and the Roman Preator that was trapped in there to now she turned her attention towards Zeke seeing him glaring angrily at the god.

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Madalyne looked at Leda she knew from her accent that she was from the UK just like her but things had been so busy she didn't really have a good chance to get to know her better until now. "Oh thats really awesome to see a fellow Brit, I was actually born in Cambridge myself." Madalyne said as Leda accepted her hand and pulled her up to her feet. Madalyne did a once over to check and make sure that things were all stowed away into her pack.

Madalyne was about to get onto Leda's back when she paused and started to sniff the air around her, one of the perks to her curse was the heightened senses, like scent and hearing. Even though they were deep in monster territory she was able to pick up a scent or two of monsters nearby. "Hold up I smell something or someone nearby." Madalyne said as she slowly started to move over to the edge of their cave and poked her head out.

She could hear some voices talking though she couldn't pick up anything specific as Madalyne looked over at Leda and waved her over she started to move out a little bit more before. She stopped over a ledge and looked down seeing a pack of harpies nearby they were talking amongst themselves by the looks of it. "Do you want to move past them or take them out?" Madalyne whispered to Leda looking over at her.

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"What does otou-san mean?" Andy asked. She couldn't go home. She had no home to go to. Her parents were dead. Now she knew what happened to them at least. But the one person who had helped her make that connection was gone and she didn't want to think about it. All of it was too sad. Her birthday was coming up and she would turn twelve. She felt like becoming a teen was so far away and everyone saw her as a little kid. She was one of the youngest campers, if not the youngest. But she didn't want to be treated like a little kid. On the quests she felt like she could be one of the bigger kids. Maybe when she was thirteen? If she made it that long. Andy had learned that life expectancy of demi-gods was woefully short.

She stood near the surf, looking out into the ocean. Wondering what the Poseidon kids felt when they looked at the ocean. She liked looking at it, but had always been a little afraid of it. It was such a massive thing and it could swallow her up and it wouldn't care about her.



Niah frowned a little at Nancy's request of the cyclops that was following them. She didn't disagree with it, not really. She was angry toward Leandra, though she hadn't run into Leandra while on her quest. Meaning her grudge wasn't quite as deep as Nancy seemed to be now. A part of Niah blamed Leandra for their loss of Mads, that was illogical, but she still felt it.

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"Oh! Otou-san means father. I have two dads... Papa and Otou-san. And a goddess mother." Stella looked over at Andy as she explained the meaning of the words she had used to her friend. She guessed she had never really explained to her before what the word meant when she had mentioned it, or it had never really come up. She looked to Kristin as she explained that she could go home, she could be a part time camper, and she looked over at Andy.

"I... I could be part time, but... I don't think I could do that right now. Not until this quest is over, and once we're sure that certain people are back here." Stella knew that Andy had two people in the underworld at the moment, and they were going to rescue one of them soon. The other? Well, Stella had no idea when he'd be returning. But she wasn't going to leave her new friend alone, no way.

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Meeting Thanatos tonight? Well, that was something at least. Zeke forced himself to eat the rest of his food, even though it tasted like ash to him. He finished his juice and wiped his mouth.

"The doors still won't appear until tomorrow or whatever, at least that's what we learned in Vegas, but if we can walk in more prepared after tonight, that should help our chances with getting Mads and Leda back," Zeke said in agreement with Kiera.

He overly didn't like the comment Alexios made about wanting a kiss and a hug from Zeke's boyfriend, but Zeke wasn't going to let the god get under his skin. Demi and Zeke had a good thing going and Zeke wasn't about to ruin that by punching the god in his face. Again. Or making Demetri mad because Zeke couldn't get along with the prick.

"I'm gonna go check in with Nanc. I'll let her know about meeting Thanatos. If you change your mind about sitting in on the trial, I'll be at the preator tent." Zeke spoke to Demi while a hand rested on his leg. He leaned in after he was done and kissed Demi's cheek.

"When I see you later, I'll make sure to help you forget about the party god," Zeke whispered into Demetri's ear before Zeke stood and left the pavillion.

Zeke walked through camp with a bit of a smug smile on his face. Deep down he knew he could lose Demetri, but Zeke was trying to live in the moment and be happy with being happy. Zeke greeted campers and waved as he walked through camp to where the Roman kids were set up. Once he was there, he looked around for Nancy or Niah while he made his way to the trial location.

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Demi pulled out a pair of black sunglasses, placing them over his eyes as he gave a smug smile over to Alexios before taking another bite of his breakfast. He took his time, savoring the food (and the moment) as Alexios continued onwards with his report. Demi tilted the glasses halfway down the bridge of his nose. ”That is what they call me. World's biggest party pooper. You can find me in the corner by the food, squatting down playing with whatever animal happens to be there.” He joked with a deadpan voice. In all honesty though, he didn't care much for his classmates and was never actually invited to go to any parties. The few times he had attempted to invite some to a birthday party or two, none ever came.

Zeke seemed…pleased, with the information about finding Thanatos. The god who supposedly controlled the doors they so desperately wanted to find. Perhaps by finding him they were fulfilling the vision Nancy had had, using him to call the doors to Central Park and thus save their friends. Demi blushed as he felt Zeke's hand on his leg, the color growing deeper after the kiss and subsequent message delivered in secret to him. Demi could think of a few ways they could help each other forget about Alexios. And with that Zeke was gone, leaving Demi's mind to wander the thought. He cleared his throat in an attempt to regain composure. ”Right. So we meet Thanatos, see what needs to be done to recall the Doors of Death, and see if the old man can add a GPS and Two Step Authenticator to it so that this doesn't happen again.”