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I stood and looked over, "Selvyn, can you show me everything?" I asked. Honestly, as much as Altair was my friend, Selvyn was probably better with the Zeus cabin…I guess that made sense. I messed up Altair's hair a bit, and he flattened it and looked up, "See Ya later, Sun Brain," I still hadn't thought of a good name for him yet, but I guess that was good for now.
Selvyn stood and smiled at me, I walked behind him as we moved towards the marble house. "So, you have any questions so far?"
"Yeah," I muttered, "When's dinner?"
Selvyn chuckled and looked back at me with those electric blue eyes, they reminded me of my mom's. I looked down, sadly remembering her. I shook my head and looked back up again, "It's in an hour or so, hope you can hold."
"Yep, and where's the washroom?"
"Do you seriously mean that? Or are you just joking?"
"No answering a question with a question," I moved beside him, shoving my elbow into his side playfully.
"There are washrooms everywhere. There's one in our cabin, I can dress in there in the morning."
I sighed and rolled my eyes…thank god. I was not changing in the same room as a guy, "No, I'll take the washroom in the morning."
"Fine, as long as I can use it before you get changed."
"Deal." We smiled as we moved in unison to the cabin. It was nothing like my father described it as. This cabin was bright yellow, mixed in with blue. Not exactly green though…a little hard to explain. I could tell though that the bright blue represented the sky, and the yellow represented the thunder and stuff. On the top there was an eagle, one of those that you see in any downtown city, where they just sit there to scare off other birds. The Eagle cawed and I jumped nearly a foot in the air. It swooped down and sat on my shoulder, looking at me harshly. Selvyn turned around, "Cynthia!" he called. The bird looked over at him and swung to his shoulder. He pulled something out of his pocket and showed it to the bird, but he crushed it in his hand, "That's what you get. This is Annabeth, she belongs here."
The bird looked between me and Selvyn, and she had eyes that looked like they wanted to kill me. Suddenly, I realized they were blue…like a child of Zeus. It flew up back to it's perch on the top of the cabin and watched me carefully. "What was that about?" I asked.
"Well, ever since we lost Thalia's tree, we've used several ways to stop invaders. One was the stone in front that you saw, we also have a bird for every cabin, a bird that represents the gods. You know, Zeus has the eagle, Aphrodite has the dove, Athena has the owl."
"Hera has a peacock, Hephaestus has a quail, yes, I know. But what about the other gods, they don't have birds. Poseidon has a horse, Ares has a boar, Apollo has a mouse, and Hermes doesn't even have an animal."
"They have young versions of those animals. Dionysus has a baby Tiger, for example. You'll notice some of them have caves outside of the cabin. And I really suggest you watch for those mice…they may be small but they have poisoned teeth. And Hermes…some of those kids are too lazy anyways, it's not like there's ever an empty cabin." I smiled a bit.
I stepped past the bathroom door and into the cabin itself. It was large with six beds, a single headrest separating them at the back of the cabin. The rest did the same around the outside of the cabin. I noticed a seventh one right beside me. In the middle was a statue, a lightning bolt that reached from the floor to the roof, and I realized it was also a pool of water, where I could easily contact my dad. Selvyn walked over and leaned on the side of the fountain. He opened up a panel with a bunch of buttons, "Okay, there's three basic buttons here. This one here, it turns on the lightning like a light. This one turns on the fountain for rainbows. And lastly, this one here calls Cynthia, that's the name of the eagle outside, I'm guessing you probably knew that." I smiled and stepped forward, touching the fountain button.
The fountain didn't appear, I was confused. Selvyn smiled and motioned me to go around. On the other side, there was a fountain. It spouted out from the back of the lightning bolt, I looked at Selvyn, "Can I talk to him alone?" I asked. He smiled and nodded, leaving the cabin. I fished a drachma out of my pocket, and the rest fell into the fountain. I shrugged, oh well, I could use them later.
I did what my dad taught me, yeah, blah, blah, Iris the Goddess, so on and so forth. I saw a shimmering image of my father on the couch, just doing nothing. He was staring into space, past the TV, into deep, empty space. "Dad?" I called. He sighed, I knew he heard me, but he just didn't react much. "Um, the address for the new camp is 800.5Bluesman Street," Honestly, the number made me think of Harry Potter…jump onto Platform 9¾!
"I'll come down and drop the stuff off," he muttered, obviously not too happy with something. I turned around at the sound of something and saw Annabeth on one of the beds, watching me.
"Dad?" I whispered.
"Hm?" He still didn't respond much.
"I love you,"
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