tushanshu | Spell 02 - Video - Afternoon of the 13th

[Sadie turns the feed in a fairly okay mood. She has a box in front of her, and it seems to be making squeaking sounds]

First--whoever finally got the turtle moving again and whatnot? You are amazing. I thought I'd be okay not having my magic but I was wrong and those aren't words you'll hear from me all that often.

Second. [She taps the lid of the box in front of her] So when I got here, there was a boy. He was a very rude boy, who made fun of my boyfriend. He hit on me as well, but mostly he insulted my boyfriend. I am very protective of my friends and family, so insulting them is the fastest way to get me angry at you. And people don't like me all that much when I'm angry. Things tend to blow up and people usually spend a few hours as a banana slug or an earthworm or something. [Or there are threats of slugification] Not that I could do anything to this boy, as almost as soon as I got here my magic stopped, but I swore I'd get him back. So, when I woke up this morning and realized that oh, hey, I can blow things up again, I went to go find this boy.

[She opens the box and pulls out a brown hamster who squeaks]

Say hello to the nice people, Leo. [Boy, it feels good to have her magic back and turning people into critters (and then using said critter as a sort of warning that, hey, you might not want to mess with her). She smirks.] I have to say, he's much cuter as a hamster.

[[OOC: Chiqui has agreed that this is pretty much why Leo is hiding during her hiatus with him! Also tags might be a bit slow starting maybe tomorrow depending on the stupid confusing roofers they keep changing their mind about stuff.

ETA: THIS IS ONLY LASTING A FEW HOURS ICLY.]]

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Are your parents like that, too?

[A moment of brief uncomfortableness]

Uh, they're, uh. Well, Mum's been dead since I was six and Dad's...complicated.

Oh, man, I'm sorry. That was a stupid question.

No, it's fine. I mean, thanks to the whole Duat magician thing, I still get to talk to them, which is something most kids can't say but...yeah, they're dead and most of our conversations tended to be about how to keep the world in one piece. Not biology or whatever.

Still, you'd think I'd know better.

At least they're still there for you, I guess? I mean, as much as they are.

Yeah, which is something.

[She doesn't ask about Jason's family]

Anyway--how many of you guys are there? I mean, if Drew's one...

It's hard to be sure, really. Even counting just the ones at Camp Half-blood, there's a small army. And at Camp Jupiter things get more complicated because you've got second and third generation Romans living there.

And it's mostly kids? Not, like, adults or anything?

A lot of older demigods live at Camp Jupiter. Not so much at Camp Half-blood.

But they've got Chiron, and Ba--Mr. D., so it's not like they're completely on their own.

Huh. Who's Chiron?

He's a centaur. Trainer of heroes.

A what tar?

Centaur. He's half-human, half-horse.

...huh.

[She's friends with a forever-pregnant hippo lady. This doesn't faze her, but is still cool]

But there's no adult Greeks?

I'm actually... not sure. I never asked what the deal was for them, after Camp.

Huh. You'd think they want to keep tabs on them and all that, so they could help with the kids.

_{( Shrugs. )}

That's how it works in New Rome. It's more a city than a camp.

But even then, it's not like the adults are automatically in charge.

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Well, no, adults don't always know what's best but for training and all that.

[A pause]

Wait, when you say "camp", do mean it's a real camp?

[Because if Drew goes to this camp, and Lacy goes to this camp, then she's apparently attending school with two demigods and oh gods why does this always happen to her]

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Uh... yeah?

[Mental keysmashing. She should have listened to Lacy. She might have known about this before!]

That...honestly, doesn't seem like the best idea if you want to not die.

Believe me, camp's the best option if you want to not die.

The outside world isn't exactly friendly to people like us.

...point. [Since it sort of sounds like they're all in one place, there's probably not other safe places to retreat to, like Egyptians have with their nomes. If you want to stay alive, you're going to go where everyone else is] If that's the case, though, why does Drew attend BAG?

It's complicated. If you're the son or daughter of a less major god or goddess, you can survive in the outside world if you've got the right training. You can attend camp in the summer, stay with your mortal parent during the rest of the year. If you're lucky.

That's not really how it worked for me, or at Camp Jupiter.

Sorry, the idea of that Plastic Bag having any training beyond flirting and annoying everyone with two brain cells is a little hard to believe, but if you say that's how it works it's not like I can argue. I guess the more powerful your parent is, the more powerful you are?

Something like that, yeah.

_{( Though that's not the only factor. Since Drew and Piper are sisters, and Piper is obviously 6 thousand times more badass. )}

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