I hate it here, she thought. She sat on the ground like everyone else, except she wasn't talking or laughing along with them. She sat on the ground, fiddling with her arrows. She took her knife and cut one open. Its wires were fried from the explosion Leo had accidentally set off while they were in there. She took a pair of pliers out from her backpack and began working on the wires. It was her fire arrow. Being an Ekat, she knew how to fix these things. To the others, they thought it was something Athena's kids could do.
She screwed a screw back in with the tip of her knife. The trigger was in the feathers. One touch of the feather and the arrow would burst into flames. Ryder twisted two of the wires together. The green light lit up and it beeped. Everyone looked at her. She didn't even look up. Ryder pulled out a roll of black duct tape and taped up the cut. Being 12, everyone watched you're every move if you didn't tell them every detail.
The others kept looking at her, looking to see what she would do. She looked up and was confused.
"What?" she asked.
"It's just that," Percy said, "Annabeth can do so much with her Athena-smartness. She couldn't have fixed an arrow with wires fried that bad. And she doesn't carry around a pair of pliers."
"My dad was an inventor," she said, putting her pliers up.
"What do you mean "was an inventor"?" Leo asked.
"Nothing," she mumbled, putting her arrow back up. She ran the side of the blade of her knife along her hand back and forth. Everyone stared. She looked up and they looked away, but Ryder could tell they were looking at her out of the corner of their eyes. She picked up her backpack, which had her quiver in it, and her bow and went in the woods.
"Where are you going?" Piper asked.
Ryder didn't answer. She just kept walking.
When Ryder got to a clearing (well, more like where a tree had fell and knocked some space away where she could practice with her arrows), she sat her back pack against a tree. She pulled out some arrows and spray painted a target
Scientists Daughters Accused of Murder, the newspaper article picture flashed in her head. She shot the arrow and it whacked the bull's eye.
Well Known Scientists Daughter Goes Missing, Family Dismisses Case. Whap! She split the other arrow.
Ryder Sage Goes Missing; Family Changed Her Identity? She shot it so hard, half the arrow disappeared into the wood. She heard footsteps behind her. She aimed for another arrow when something grabbed her from behind. She recognized the grip. She gasped and tried to pull away, but he put a rag over her mouth and nose. She didn't mean to, but she breathed it in.
"Nighty-night, Ryder," the voice said, or as she knew him, Casper Wyoming.
She collapsed in his arms, unconscious.