After lunch, Allie showed me around the camp.
My feet hurt really badly by the time we got to the stables. I wasn't used to all of this walking.
And then I got an idea. "Hey, Allie?"
"Yeah?" she looked over at me.
"Can you show me the rest of camp on a pegasus?" I asked hopefully.
Allie paused at the stable door. "That's actually not a bad idea. You'll see more up there any way."
We walked along the row of stalls. About half currently had an occupant, and the rest were off being ridden, I guess.
Down at the last stall, a boy with black hair was brushing off a black pegasus.
"Yeah, I know." He said, but I didn't see anyone else in here. He pulled a couple of sugarcubes out of his pocket and fed them to the pegasi.
Allie cleared her throat. The boy turned, and I saw he had green eyes and black hair. His hand was over his pocket, and he was tensed up, but when he saw Allie, he relaxed.
"Hey, Allie." He said. "What's up?"
Allie shrugged. "This is Mattie, I'm showing her around." she said, gesturing to me.
"Hey, Mattie." He said. "I'm Percy, by the way."
So this was the famed Percy Jackon.
"Why'd you freak out when Allie cleared her throat?" I asked curiously.
Too late, I realized that I should probably have kept my mouth shut.
Percy smiled crookedly. "I've been attacked too many times not to go on the defense when I hear a weird noise.
"We'll ride Diana and, um, Luna." Allie said as Percy turned back to the pegasi.
Allie led Luna and Diana out, and gave me a boost up onto Luna's back.
We flew around for a little over two hours, Allie pointing out the main sights. While we flew over the forest, I saw something huge moving around.
I pointed this out to Allie.
"Oh, that's just one of the monsters that lives in the woods for, like, fights and stuff." Allie assured me.
Funny. I didn't feel assured.
After that, we flew back to the stables and put Luna and Diana back into their stalls.
More oats would be nice, milady. A quiet female voice said.
I jerked around, looking for the source.
Allie glanced at me. "Are spastic seizures normal for you, Mattie?"
I groaned. " No. But I'm hearing voices." I said, rather crazed.
"Have you taken your meds today?" Allie asked, concerned.
"I don't take meds for my ADD." I told her.
Are you ok? another voice, male this time, said.
I twitched.
Allie stared at me. "Seriously, are you ok?"
"Yes, sure. Please don't spread this around camp, Allie. I'm new, please!" I begged.
She glanced at me. "Why would I do that?" she asked. Not waiting for an answer, she continued. "I'm not like that, Mattie. We all have issues, otherwise we couldn't get inside the borders. Our whole family is messed up, and so are we. "
She slammed down a water bucket in a sink and forcibly turned on the water. "Even if we don't actually know who our parents are." she muttered under her breath, probably thinking I couldn't hear.
Oats. The female voice said.
"Luna?" I walked towards the pegasus, talking softly, so Allie couldn't hear me. "Is that you talking?"
As you say, duh.
"Horses." I whisper. "Hearing them means Poseidon is my dad, right?"
"You aren't a Big Three." Someone behind me said, making me jump.
I spun around, red faced.
Lucy was standing behind me, with another satyr.
It was the other satyr who had spoken.
"Well, that was rude." Lucy at the other satyr.
The other satyr looked ashamed. "Sorry." he mumbled.
Lucy rolled her eyes. "Excuse Grover, he's too preoccupied to use his brain function on anything but his girlfriend."
I smiled tentatively. "Grover..." I said. "Why'd you say that?"
Grover shifted uncomfortably. "Well," he said, (I guess he was gathering his thoughts together.) "You doesn't smell like Percy."
Lucy sighed. "You were listening to Luna talking, correct?"
I nodded.
"Well, that usually means you are Posiedon's kid, but you don't smell the same." she said lamely.
"Then what does she smell like?" Allie had decided to join the conversation.
"She smells like a minor god or goddess." Grover said.
Lucy stared at him. "Were you serious, or is this just your preoccupied brain randomly spewing nonsense out of your mouth?"
"Um, serious?"
"You don't sund sure." Allie said.
"Great, so now you're ganging up on me?" Grover said, exasperated.
"Fight later." Lucy said.
"This makes no sense." Grover said. "Mattie, your eyes aren't green."
"Wow." I said drily. "Thanks for telling me something I did not know, Captain Obvious."
Grover shrugged. "That would be a primary indicator that you were Poseidon's kid, but your eyes are brown, so you're not."
"Does that really matter a lot?" Allie asked.
Lucy nodded. "Your eyes will be the color of your Olympian parent about 75 percent of the time."
Allie's eyes were suddenly brighter.
Grover opened his mouth to say something, but right then, the conch horn blew.
"Dinner already?" muttered Lucy.
I checked my watch. "It's not time for dinner."
Grover cleared his throat. "It would be bad to be late, whatever it is."
We all walked as fast as we could towards the dining pavilion.
Author's Note: Ta-da! The book characters have been introduced. I promised myself I would update this weekend, and I spent THREE HOURS writing this Saturday night (and since I'm writing this at 12:20midnight local time,) Sunday morning.
Thanks to my reviewers for the last chapter:
Coco96
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