Piper POV
Staring through Katropis, Piper scanned for anything that could lead to some life-changing prophecy. Nothing.
Maybe they would have a break. There were always monsters, but after everything she had faced, Piper decided she could probably beat them in her sleep.
Maybe not literally. She heard a knock on her door. Sighing, she made sure she was alone before walking to the door of her cabin. She knew exactly who it was. It had to be that annoying camper from the Hermes cabin. He was apparently trying to ask her out. She was able to reject him every time with some… assistance from her charmspeak, but her patience decreased every time. She felt like screaming at him, now.
Opening the door with more force than was strictly necessary, she found that her face was oh-so-rudely introduced to a bundle of some kind of flowers.
Slapping them away, she glared at the kid, who was grinning sheepishly. "You, again?" 'This is where charmspeak comes in handy', she thought. Interrupting his speech about his "undying love" for her, she asked, "Why don't you go back to your cabin?"
To her surprise, he stayed. She tried again. "Kid, please go back to your cabin." Still, he was rooted to the spot.
Her mouth opened slightly in surprise. So her charmspeak decided to take a vacation? Great timing, really.
The Hermes kid smiled and took her hand. She shook it away. He frowned in apparent confusion and tried again.
So, she tried the direct approach. She felt something odd inside her hand, but it didn't hurt. For some reason she felt like it should hurt. Odd.
Long story short, she wound up her hand and slapped him.
Not enough to seriously injure him, but enough to make a point. Except it did more than that.
When her hand came in front of her face, she could actually see electricity coming off of it. Three. Two. One. Contact.
He dropped like a wet sack of flour, out for the count. Piper stood in the door, wide eyed, open-mouthed with her arm extended slightly, frozen. She shook herself out of her shock, carefully stepped over the unfortunate and ran to the only one she knew could help; Chiron.