Lilith wasn't sure as to what happened, she just remembered passing out at the director's table.
However, she entered a dream, rather than fading into black.
She watched a tan girl with short, dirty black hair run through the streets of a Roman city, with some bread in her arms. She continuously glanced back, two armored men were chasing her, shouting at her in Latin. Despite the soldier's best effort, they couldn't keep up with the nimble size of the girl, and eventually they lost her.
However, she didn't stop and kept running until came across a run down and abandoned church on the outskirts of the city.
It took visible effort from her, but she moved aside the heavy, rotted wooden door of the church and hurried inside.
Inside was a group of at least six other homeless boys and girls. One of the boys walked up to the tanned girl after she handed out all of the bread. "Leaving none for yourself again?" He asked in Latin. The boy was tall and lean and muscled, despite their living conditions. He had long unruly black hair and warm sea green eyes, he reminded Lilith of Percy. "It's no big deal. I'll survive…" Before Lilith could take in the scene, it shifted.
They were older now, and down to three others, aside from the tanned girl and the boy with the sea green eyes. The girl called after the boy, out on the dirt road outside of the Church. "Are you crazy Lucius!?" She cried at him. "We're not full Roman citizens! At best you'll only be Auxilary, you know how badly they are treated!" He stopped and looked back at her, "Raven, you know that's not every case." She shook her head, "But what are the chances?! You can't really expect me to find comfort in the slim chance you can make it big in the Legion and come back for me!... There's too big a chance I'll never see you again." That line seemed to make Lucius falter, but his eyes steeled, his body stiffened. "I've made up my mind, Raven. Please, have faith in me like you always do. I promise I'll come back even if the enemy chops off my legs, I'll crawl back if I have to." Raven obviously wanted to argue more, but she knew he'd never change his mind.
She gulped and held back further tears. "Fine." She said, catching him by surprise. "I'll wait here, every day from Noon to three," She said. "I'll wait for the day you return a champion and come to whisk me away from this hell. Any time the fighting gets rough, just imagine returning to my smiling face, waiting for you at this road." Lucius smiled, "That I will, thank you again, Raven. For everything." He walked back to her and gave her a final kiss, before walking down the road and didn't look back. Raven stared after him until he was no longer visible. She shook her head, "..Idiot.."
Lilith gasped for air, the dream melting away, revealing a clear blue sky. "Hey, you alright?" Percy said, appearing over her. Lilith's head hurt, "Ah, did I fall or something?" He helped her up and she bowed her head, "I-I apologize for the trouble." Percy seemed to be out of it, as if distracted by something. "Y-Yeah, no problem." He glanced at Jason, as if saying something silently, Jason didn't answer, but helped Lucas get up.
"I'll explain later," Jason said to Lucas, "Just take Lilith and show her around camp for now."
Lucas didn't argue and Lilith followed him away from the Pavilion. He stopped once they were far enough away, and turned to face her. "Hey, when you were unconscious just now… did you, um.. See anything? Like a dream?" Lilith's eyes widened, "You saw it too? Raven and Lucius?" She asked and Lucas nodded slowly. "...I just... would you know why?" Lilith looked down, "Well… I had a dream about Raven last night too.." She told Lucas about her previous dream. "So that wasn't the first time? Why did I see it too?" Lilith shrugged. "I-I don't know why I saw it in the first place, myself. I can't even begin to explain why you see it too." She bowed her head again, "However it happened, I-I'm sorry!" Lucas shook his head, "Come on, don't do that. It's not on purpose, right? Come on, I need to show you around anyways."
Lucas lead her around, to different areas in camp, having her try her luck at each of them. She was terrible at archery, the children of Demeter, tending to the strawberry farm, refused to let Lilith near the crops, she was even worse at swordplay than she was at archery.
As they walked away from the Sword fighting arena with more bruises than she entered with, Lucas said "Don't sweat it, we'll find something you're good at, and with practice, you'll do fine." Lilith knew he was trying to reassure her, comfort her, but she wasn't so sure.
Then, a question came to mind. "Everyone here is a child of the gods, one way or the other, right?" She asked and Lucas nodded. "What about it?" She shrugged. "Who's your godly parent?" Lucas smirked, "The god of war, Ares." He said proudly. "Then you're good at fighting and war?" He nodded. "Got it from the old man himself. I'm really good with a sword." Lilith looked down and frowned, "Then, I guess I'm good with the dead, huh?" Lucas's smile soured, but didn't wilter. "That has it's uses too. Comes in real handy when you run into the undead, which unfortunately, happens more often than you'd think. Especially ghouls, they've been popping up more frequently recently."
Lilith continued to frown as they toured the rest of Camp. She was relieved to find out that Camp had an arts n' crafts area, something she was good at, but not very heroic. He then took her to the climbing wall, but she took one look at it and refused to even give it a try.
The tour ended at the fireworks beach, overlooking Long Island Sound. "It's crazy to think that this is an Ancient Greek world, residing in the modern one. This is New York, but not." She said and Lucas nodded, the two of them enjoying the sea breeze. "The mortals really can't see this place?" Lucas shrugged. "Oh they can, but all they see is a strawberry farm, but you can't be sure, a mortal will believe anything, but the truth."
Lilith looked out over Long Island Sound, "I know this may be ironic coming from a daughter of Hades, but It's crazy thinking that someone out there actually controls all of that." She motioned toward the water. Lucas laughed, "Yeah, that's true. We all feel the same, and about you too."
Lilith rose an eyebrow, "Me?" Lucas nodded, "Your father is Hades, Lord of the Underworld. It's hard to imagine you being the daughter of someone that powerful, but here you are. You are amazing in your own right." As Lucas talked, Lilith looked down at the ground. "..I guess it is crazy, knowing that the Underworld is my domain, that my father could be looking up at me right now… But that's crazy, isn't it? There is no way Hades would be looking at me, right? I'm not important enough to attract the attention of one of the three sons of Kro-" Lucas covered Lilith's mouth. "Don't say his name out loud like that! Your father is one thing, he's your father, but invoking names like his, you attract their attention." Lilith slowly nodded. "Names have power." He said as he removed his hand from her mouth. "...Then, evil gods like him exist too?" Lucas nodded. "Titan. And unfortunately, yeah, they exist."
Lucas turned, "Come on, let me show you to your cabin." He said and Lilith nodded, "The tall black mansion one, right?"
Lucas lead her to the tall black, obsidian structure, with a skull over the doorway, flanked by two braziers with writhing green flames.
"That's Greek Fire." Lucas explained, "A flame you can't put out and can even burn under water." Lilith gulped, looking at the fire, but she stepped closer towards the cabin. At the doorway, she looked back, Lucas was standing a few feet back. "C-Come with me!" She said, scared, but Lucas laughed nervously. "You can't pay me enough go in there." Lilith shook her head, "B-But I'm scared and don't want to enter alone." Lucas laughed again, "Your scared? It's your father, you're safe. Hades is a vengeful god." Lilith shook her head, "Isn't it okay if I give permission?" Lucas paused, then said, "Even so, a male and female camper are not allowed to be alone in a cabin." Lilith stomped her foot, "Oh come with me already!" The shadows thickened around the cabin.
A churning feeling appeared in her stomach, and the shadows turned three dimensional and wrapped around Lucas and pulled him towards Lilith. "W-Wait!" She called, the churning feeling disappeared, the shadows let go of Lucas, who stumbled and ran into Lilith. The two of them fumbled and burst through the door and onto the cabin floor. Scones on the walls lit up with a ghostly blue flame, but the light was normal. "W-Wait, Lilith, we can't-" Lilith pouted at him, and he crumbled. "Fine, but only for a little." He stood and helped her up. "...So this is the Hades Cabin?" There were rows of beds, coffin shaped with blood red pillows and sheets, desks dotted between the beds, designed for seclusion. A bone-like structure sat at the back of cabin, some kind of shrine with candles.
"It's not as… Underworldly as I thought It'd be." Lucas said and Lilith rose an eyebrow. "You've been to the Underworld?" She asked amazed and Lucas nodded, "Once, for a quest. We had to deliver an artifact to Hades safely." Lucas grimaced. "Lost one of us on the trip. Three of us set out.. Only two of us returned." Lilith's theme of the day seemed to be: frowning.
"What happens when you die?" Lilith asked, and Lucas looked at her funny. "Okay okay, I know my dad's Hades and all, but I'm new. I still don't know that stuff yet." Lucas smiled, suppressing a laugh. "I was just teasing you, I know." He sighed, "Well, your soul is taken to the Underworld by Thanatos, the god of Death-" "He was chained before, right?" Lilith interrupted, remembering what Percy said. "Yeah," Lucas confirmed, "That was during the war. Anyways, eventually your soul will be judged, based off of what you did while you were alive and you will be sent to wherever they deem you deserve. If you were bad, Fields of Punishment, if you were normal, Plains of Asphodel, if you were good and valiant, Elysium. And if you are reborn and reach Elysium three times, you'll be sent to the Isle of the Bles. Paradise." Lilith frowned again. "You think your friend got a fair judgement?" Lucas shrugged. "Who knows? Hades may hold grudges, but he's always been known to be fair in matters of life and death and very strict in upholding that very same balance."
Lilith looked down at the ground again, "Then he's… not that bad?" Lucas shrugged. "He was just like any other immortal when I met him, but it was brief. Maybe you'll get to know him more, he is your father."
Lilith didn't give voice to it, but she silently hoped she never had to see Hades in general, she much preferred the world of the living.