Natalie Sky POV
I stare at the girl who just appeared in front of me. She is tall, with curly brown hair, turquoise eyes,and this funny hat. "W... who are you?" I ask. How did she just appear? That doesn't make sense.
"I'm Victoria Smith. You can call me Viccie. I'm here to help you get to camp."
"How did you just... appear?"
"It's hard to explain. Now come on, we have to get moving."
"But... I'm tired. I've been walking all day. And these really, really short guys keep popping out of trees and snarling at me. I want to take a break." She sighs and sits down on a fallen tree trunk. I sit down next to her and pull out a granola bar, pulling it in half. "Here you go. It chocolate chip and peanut butter." She smiles and takes her half. I notice that she reaches into her pocket and pulls out two little bottles. One has clear liquid, the other has blue. They are labeled, but I can't quite see what they say. "What's that?"
"Oh, these? They're just something from home."
"Are you a half blood too?"
"Yes."
"Are you safe? My mommy said to not talk to strangers. You're not going to kidnap me are you?"
"What? Of course not!"
Victoria Smith POV
"That's good. We can go now." She stands up and starts walking. I follow her and we take up a pattern in our steps. After walking for a while, she says
"Viccie, who's that boy over there?" I look where she's pointing but nothing is there.
"There isn't a boy. It must be your imagination."
"No, he's right there, see?!" She points again, at nothing.
"Are you okay?"
"Can't you see him? He's telling me to come. He telling me to come help him. Viccie, we have to help him!"
"There's no one there!" She starts running to the right, towards a clearing. It dawns one. It an allusion, a monster. It's a trap. "Natalie, stop!" She keeps running, like she can't hear me. How can this already be happening? I only met her an hour ago or so! I run ahead and grab her, pulling her away from the clearing.
"No! He's dying! He's-" She trails off. "He's gone. He died. You let him die. You are a monster aren't you?!" She glares at me, and them actually looks at my face. "You didn't see him did you. Why did I see him?"
"I don't know. I just don't know. If you see something like that again, don't go near it. I guarantee you that that was a trap."
"It was so real..."
"We need to keep walking. I don't think we should go to sleep in the forest, so we need to try toget to a town. There shouldn't be one... about five or six miles from here, really close."
"Where are we going to sleep?"
"Wherever we can."
"But where?"
"We'll have to figure that out once were in town."
"When will we be in town?"
"It depends if we start walking or not!"
"Oh..." we walk on for about an hour, watching the sunset and the silver orb of the moon rise. Apollo. Natalie smiles and points ahead of us,towards a little village. "Were here! Now where do we sleep?"
"Maybe a bench. Or in the little park over there."
"What? Outside?"
"Yeah,where else would we sleep. It'll be okay. I'll keep you safe."
"Okay, fine." We run to the nicely mown park on the edge of the village and lay down in the grass. We close our eyes and drift off into a dreamless sleep.
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