I woke up to a bright light shining in my eyes. I blinked and moaned, then the light went out and I sat up. I had no idea where I was. What is this place? How did I get here? Who am I? All these questions popped into my head that I had to slap myself to concentrate. "Ow." I said while rubbing my cheek. 'That was stupid." said a soft voice in the corner. It sounded sad and kind of unimpressed. Not like I wanted to impress anyone.
Then a girl stepped forward. She had light brown eyes, but they were hard and fierce, she also had amber hair that shone like it had been polished. She was very pretty. Anyway, the girl was coming closer. She reached out a hand towards my face, but before I could smack it away her hand was around my neck. She was strangling me, I tried to talk, but I couldn't. I tried to pull her hand away, but she was too strong. I tried to kick scratch, slap, and punch, even bite her, but nothing affected her. Then she grabbed a dagger from the belt around her waist and pointed it at my chest. She loosened her grip around my neck, but her hand was still there. "So weak," she sneered, "I expected you would be stronger than this." She finished gesturing, with the dagger point, to me.
She lifted up her dagger high and pointed it at my face. "Hold on a second, who are you and why did you say you expected me to be stronger?" I asked. I must've looked scared, because she started to lower the dagger and she looked really tired. Suddenly she sat down beside me. "I'm sorry. I can't do this." she said. She held her head between her hands. She looked so miserable and small that I felt tempted to comfort her, but then I remembered that she almost killed me a few seconds ago. Then she began to cry, I patted her on the back. "Jason…" she sniffed. "Who's Jason?" I asked gently. "Someone." She sat up and started to wipe the tears from her eyes. "Where is he?" I asked. She looked at me and said, "He's gone." Then she turned away and got up. "He was my…good friend," she said, and then she turned around and looked at me.
" Who are you?" she asked. I tried to figure out who I was, but I couldn't seem to get the answer. "I don't know…" I replied. She raised her eyebrows. "Seriously?" she asked. "Yeah, I can't…remember." I must've looked really confused, because she dropped the subject. "I'll answer your other question. I expected you to be stronger, because Bobby said that you smelled powerful." she said, as thought that made complete sense. "What?" I asked. "You'll understand later." she replied. "First of all we need to see Lupa." She murmured. Who's Lupa?" I asked. "She can answer the rest of your questions. C'mon let's go!" she said cheerfully. "Wait," I said, "I still don't know who you are." I said. "Oh, I'm Reyna, Daughter of Apollo, God of the Sun, Welcome to Camp Half-Blood."