Ella

Ella looked across the table at the most powerful demi-god ever to set foot on English soil, slayer of the Minotaur, Cronus, the chosen one for various prophesies and guarantied death for any monster unlucky enough to meet him. Otherwise known as Percy.

She knew all this about him but kept it to herself because one, she didn't want to sound like some sort of monster pervert and two she would have to answer a lot of awkward questions and she didn't know the answer to most of them herself. Well that wasn't strictly true… she knew that she could understand humans, a gift from her dad, read their body languages and so forth for instance she knew that he was friends with another child of the forge guy because his mouth had turned slightly down when she had told him about her dad, he had a girl friend with blond hair and grey eyes and that they were seriously in love because whenever he saw a blond his right hand twitched hopefully.

She also knew his favourite colour was blue, he was the son of the sea god, had a half-brother hat was a Cyclopes and a pet hell hound… Mrs Hsomething. She had noticed all of this in the time they had spent in MacDonald's.

But there was something else; she hadn't even told Lottie about her latest development. She could, to an extent, read minds. Not like that much but more tell the shape of someone's mind and the rough direction it was going so if she was fighting someone she could tell what move they would make next. Percy's mind for instance was sharp- like a sword but only sometimes it was easily distracted and turned into mush, like now he was staring at a bird in a tree the train was going past.

"It's huge."

Ella turned to look at Percy he had turned his wandering attention away form the tree and was now focused on the buffet cart. "I'm sorry, what?"

"There's so much England! We were told that your country was tiny!"

"Yeah well" said Lottie "We are a whole country."

"Yeah but…" he stopped talking as a blond walked past, "I just think."

"okay then guys" interrupted Ella knowing that if Percy made one more ill placed comment Lotie would kill him slowly and painfully. "I've finished!"

Ella threw down loads of different coloured bits of paper.

"I've got you a fake driving licence and passport, you have attended one school up in schotland before moving down here, your dad is American explaining the accent and in two weeks' time you will be flying out to meet him coincidently at exactly the same time as I'm knocked out with a terrible illness that only the doctors in America will cure. Now you will probably have people looking for you, monsters and so forth so… what name do you want?" She paused with her pen hovering just above the paper and looked at Percy questioningly.

"Umm… John?"

"Yup ok then," she scribbled for a bit "your name is now John Nare."

Lottie mock chocked on the food she was eating "Nare? Are you serious? That is so not low key!"

"Shut up."

"Fine then."

Both girls went into mock sulks before giving up and laughing instead, they laughed for about five minutes before noticing the train was pulling up at the end satiation.

Lottie looked out the window nervously, it was dark now and frost was beginning to creep up the windows. "Who's collecting us?"

"My dad. What's your excuse to your parents?"

"Don't know, do you think they will buy that I caught the plague and had to be rushed of to London for intensive surgery?"

"Nope."

"Me nether."