( *:・゚✦ ) xx❝xx𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧 𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 !! x─────ix ♔
x──────i ii zeus. iii eighteen. iiii tags: riley. ivi cabin one.
x──────i ii zeus. iii eighteen. iiii tags: riley. ivi cabin one.
- that was food for thought. a bit of orin wished that he could meet him, or at least meet someone who could confirm or deny the theory. maybe chiron would know. chiron knew everything. more of a curse than anything, he supposed. "i'll have to think about it. i'll weigh up all the comparisons and get back to you. never know. he might be a child of hades or something. we might have it all wrong. some people don't even think he existed," he frowned. "which is stupid. how does someone write a book if they're not real? idiots." there was a flaw in his logic somewhere. he wasn't worried about finding it. "every story written for children is fundamentally messed-up at its core. it's all - it's all abuse and neglect and fairy princes and - and... and tortoises. tortoises winning against hares because the tortoise 'took its time'. what a load of -" he cut himself off, certain that getting too heated over a fable of aesop's was not the best way to retain a sense of calm in the cabin. "i think the troll threatened to eat them. i don't remember well."
"we'll agree to disagree, right?" orin said, though it was clear he was still pulling the string a bit. "yeah. everyone. i've got people lining up to chat to me, riley. you should feel real lucky right now. i'm running off about five appointments with some soon-to-be disappointed campers. they need their time with the gorman. who doesn't? i feel a bit bad. but - for you..." he dragged the word out. "i'll let 'em wait."
through the door, the sound of the lunch horn. orin's ears perked up. "thank god for that." he stood, swayed on his feet a little as he found his balance, and nodded toward the door. "munch?" his hand to the handle, swinging open the vast entrance and frowning at the cold of outside. "not ever gonna get used to that." orin stepped out, bracing against the cold. "come on, before the hermes kids hog all the good stuff."
( *:・゚✦ ) xx❝xx 𝐥𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐳 !! x─────ix ♘
x──────i ii ares. iii eighteen. iiii tags: vittorio ivi cabin area.
x──────i ii ares. iii eighteen. iiii tags: vittorio ivi cabin area.
- a nod confirmed the answer to vittorio's question. "some of them. most of them," he wasn't sure whether he'd have called what he had 'powers' - he wasn't quite sure where the human impulses stopped and the godly impulses started. the line between his mortal skills and his demigod skills seemed rather blurred, mixed in with one another. certainly they were bolstered by each other, but where were they split? what could he blame on his dad, and what was his own fault? he wasn't sure. "blow up? yeah. can't anyone, though? anyone can make a bomb, right? just... i think most people would find it morally questionable." a little smile rose from him at the following question. "yeah, i feel that."
he didn't quite mind, which surprised him. most of the people who had approached him in the past few hours had done so with a reason, with something that they wanted from him - be it protection or an explanation that he couldn't provide - and this was a rare instance of interaction without witness or reward. he was enjoying it, a bit. there was something that pulled him into the conversation, that silenced the little beast that sat on the sidelines.
'the pink cabin' - that was aphrodite, then. "i wouldn't listen to most of them," he said. the ones he had come into contact with (that weren't mira, he had to note, for as much as she had bothered him earlier, it appeared that she had a good head on her shoulders) were vapid and shallow. "i wouldn't listen to most people here. i'm just cynical, though." he didn't trust his peers. so much was obvious. "but i'd definitely put aphrodite kids at the top of that list."
"that's how i know you're new," he said in response to the question. most of the campers took one look at leo and had him sussed from mere appearances. "ares." the big bad, the first god trialled for murder, he who rode with enyo. his father seemed to have gotten the rather short end of the stick. the sound of the lunch horn came, interrupting any potential further thoughts of the mistreatment of the man he couldn't bring himself to call 'dad'. good thing, too. he could have gone for something to eat. "so you're with the hermes cabin, then. sorry." he hadn't been faced with their wrath for very long, but had seen it from afar. "going to get something to eat before you run off?" that was what he had gotten - the shifty eyes, the nerviness. he had picked up on it, and now it was clear. vittorio wanted to leave. everyone did. everyone was waiting for their moment to scarper, even if it was a tiny bit of them.
( *:・゚✦ ) xx❝xx𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐱 !! x─────ix ♗
x──────i ii hephaestus. iii seventeen. iiii tags: chuck - open.
ivi outside bathrooms - cafeteria.
x──────i ii hephaestus. iii seventeen. iiii tags: chuck - open.
ivi outside bathrooms - cafeteria.
- "yeah!" jude confirmed. "one of my cousins plays a game called stardew valley - i think you'd really like it. it's just going around and farming, really. i've no idea what you do, but it seems like it'd be right up your alley." that was something to note down. she should have brought a notepad, but the last thing that she had anticipated was an idea-bouncing session.
"you can be secretive without sneaking," jude pointed out. "you just need to know the right tricks. but if you can't keep it too secret, i won't mind. it's pretty exciting stuff. maybe we'll have to leak it in little tidbits, just so everyone can look forward to it." she chuckled to herself, the horn interrupting their plotting for now. here was where her own secret came in - the idea that had blossomed into a plan. "i'll see you in a little bit!" she called, heading in the direction of the cabins. she hadn't unpacked, but jude knew what she was looking for.
inside of the hephaestus cabin was warm - it was always warm. she liked it that way. her case lay mostly untouched on the ground, and she wasted no further time in digging through carefully segmented sections of clothing and other essentials to find something that her one of her uncles had given her before she left. she had appreciated it - the little walkman, the case that came with it, the casettes of old beatles, xtc and bowie albums - but in all honesty, she was more fascinated by the inner workings of the thing than the thing in its entirety. it deserved to be loved for its intentions rather than its engineering. and it gave chuck something to listen to.
fabric - a spare handkerchief for oil collection was torn quickly, precisely into a ribbon, the dotted brown-and-orange cloth making for a lovely little bow around the case that held the vintage piece of tech. gods willing, she would make sure to get chuck a few new tapes every time she returned to camp. that required that they all returned at all -
no. for another time.
with the gift in hand and a mission in mind, her venture took her to the cafeteria, where she spotted the satyr, placed the present in front of him, and disappeared before he could deny it, drifting to the so-far empty hephaestus table to line her stomach with something other than the nausea-inducing plane food that had taken her this far.