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Camp Half Blood Campers' Correspondence a Year Later-[Lilah Denzel to Nikki K]
Hey you-
I got to feel like I belonged this week. It was revitalizing. I mean, I'd feel like I belonged when I was with you, but this was different. There were more people involved. I didn't know who I was at home, and here they don't really know who I am either. I don't know who I am, but I got to pretend that maybe I belonged to someone greater, and for a minute, even if I didn't know who that was, it didn't matter, because I was greater than everyone else.
We had chariot races. Surprised, right? Not the type of thing you'd picture me doing, but I did it. The cabin I was put into when I first got here because no one knew who I was, was really crowded. This other cabin took some of us in. It was huge and some of the kids got scared out of it after the first day, but I stayed. I felt a bit more like a person in there.
There were so many kids working on the Hermes chariots, that a few of us who still wanted to help were invited by the Zeus cabin. There's one girl in that cabin who's really strong, but lacked a bit of finesse, so we helped her out. I really wanted to race, but there were already 2 Hermes chariots, so one of the Zeus kids, who wasn't going to race, changed his mind so I could ride with him. He was really good at it, so we managed to get in to the finals. Strong girl got caught in a cart explosion. She's fine, though.
There are new kids here. There's always new kids here, except instead of them all being shoved into one or two cabins, sometimes their parents are actually claiming them. Or parent substitutes. There've been a lot kids of less important gods coming in. Some of them are happy for a parent, some of them are bitter. The new Eris kid is pleased she's an Eris kid, but because she's an Eris kid, she seems to think she's not allowed to be satisfied. She mumbles to herself.
There's a kid in the Hestia cabin. We built the cabin out of respect, but it was supposed to stay empty. Hestia use to be an important goddess, but then she gave up her place so that the gods wouldn't fight. I guess she's still important, but she's not supposed to have any kids so we're not sure where this new girl came from. She came out of the camp fire one day, doesn't remember a thing and Hestia claimed her, so for some reason Hestia's decided to take care of the girl. We call her Virginia and she speaks from time to time. She likes the nursery. Campers can volunteer there during frees and I go there from time to time. Many of those kids don't have their parents anymore, either because they lost them or they were taken from them, and I don't want them to feel like orphans. I've had enough of that. We got a child of Persephone in there the other day. We rescued the thing before Hades got to it. She's a darling. She's newborn, but she likes to move, and she's so happy. She's strong. I think she'll do well here. We'll take care of her.
You better get this letter, or I'll never forgive you. You have to know that I'm thinking of you.
-love Lilah
Hermes Cabin – Cabin 11