Cadence stared past the huge pine tree that marked the boarder of Camp Half-Blood. She longed to step over the line, and be out in the real world. But she knew that could never happen. She was too powerful. Leaving camp would be like committing suicide.
She stood there for a few more minutes. She didn't care if any cars came by, they wouldn't see her anyway. They would just see strawberry fields for miles. Cadence could've stood there for hours on end, had not the conch shell been blown to signal dinner. She didn't want to go down, but she went anyway knowing they'd come looking for her if she didn't. She slowly started walking down the hill to the pavilion. Once she had reached dinner, she walked over to table 3. She sat alone, for she only had one other cabin mate. Her half-brother, Percy, didn't stay all year at camp like Cadence did, so for nine out of twelve month of the year, she would eat alone, train alone, have activities alone, and do basically everything alone. Her friend, Annabeth, used to be a year-round camper like her, but, she went back to try living with her dad again. Cadence sat down miserably. She hated being alone, and that's her life mostly was. She longed for Chiron to give her a quest, but she knew that that would never happen. He knew she sometimes couldn't control powers, which would only her on a quest, especially in battle if they other person knew.
The camp director, Mr. D, also known as Dionysus, the God of Wine, stood up in front of the 10 campers that stayed year-long. "Well, you little brats, a week from Monday the summer campers will get here, and there will be more of you to get on my nerves, so therefore meaning cabin inspection the Sunday before." He sat down as some of the campers groaned about inspection. They only had two inspections a year at Camp Half-Blood, one before the summer campers arrived, and one at the end of summer when the summer campers were leaving. Cadence never really minded inspections. During the year she wasn't in her cabin much, it made her feel depressed. And during the summer, between her and Percy, there really wasn't much in the cabin to clean up. Occasionally, their half-brother, Tyson, the Cyclops, would stay in there cabin at camp, and some stuff would get messed up, but there was never a huge mess to clean.
The food appeared on the tables, and Cadence filled up her plate before getting up with the rest of the campers, and walking over to the fire to offer to the gods. "Poseidon," she murmured quietly while tossing some of her food into the fire. She walked back to her table, told her goblet, "Cherry-Vanilla Dr. Pepper," ate her food, and got up to go to her cabin. As she left the pavilion, she heard her name called by someone behind her, and she turned to see the camp's activities director, Chiron, walking toward her in his centaur form. "Cadence," he called again. She stopped as he walked up to her. "Yes, Chiron?" She said to him. "Are you feeling ok? You seem to be a little out of it lately," he asked her concerned. "I'm fine, Chiron. I've just been a little lonesome, that's all," she reassured him. He looked are skeptically, as if he didn't believe her, and thought there was something else wrong. If he thought it was important, he didn't pester Cadence. That was one of the good things about Chiron; he didn't pester you until you told him what he wanted to hear. "It'll be fine, Cadence. Percy and Annabeth will be back in week, you wouldn't be alone for long." He turned and galloped away. Cadence turned and started walked toward the cabins. Yeah, but they'll only be here for 3 months, and that' only if they don't get to go on another quest without me. She thought as she walked to the dark, empty space of Cabin 3.