"Are you sure that no one is going to catch us?" Nicco asked. He was sitting next to me on the floor.
"Not really" I answered honestly. I had gone to Nicco's cabin and told him to come with me. He didn't ask anything in the way there so I assumed he understood what we were going to do. We were hiding behind a bush near the main house.
"So we're going to stay here all night?" Nicco asked.
"Shush! Look." I pointed to one of the windows of the main house. Nicco turned to the window mimicking my position. Chiron was pacing back and forth in front of the window. He was saying something I couldn't hear. I saw one of the doctors (so to speak) of the camp saying something to Chiron. He passed his hand through his face exhaling. Something was worrying him and someone was hurt. The doctor turned around and entered in some room in the multiple doors of the house. "Come." Nicco and I crawled around the bushes in order to go around the house. We ducked in looking around trying to not get caught. I motioned to Nicco so he would go in front of me. As we were passing the main door squatted, I smelled something wrong. A smell that gave me a shill down my spine, something I had only smelled in battle. I looked around trying to find the source of that sour smell and I found a large pool of a red liquid on the floor. Blood. My heart was racing as I saw spots all over the place. Someone was seriously hurt.
"What are you doing? Hurry up!" I woke up at the sound of Nicco's voice. I immediately shook that inertia that took over my body and went to hide in the bush on the other side of the front way. "What happened? You look like you're going to be sick."
I sat on the floor and said "Didn't you see the amount of blood in the entry way?"
"No, I didn't." He looked over my shoulder trying to see it. "Wow, that's a lot of blood."
"Yeah, whoever is bleeding is not going to survive for much longer."
"Who do you think it is?" he asked with his eyes wide open as he sat next to me.
"I have no idea, perhaps is some demigod in his way here." I answered.
"Most probably but why the big deal about it?" Nicco said lowering his voice.
"Something is not right. I can feel it." And it was true, my body was in total alarm I could feel the blood pumping against my skin. All I wanted to do was to go inside and see by myself what was going on, but I had a better idea. "Come, let's try to see something from that window." I pointed to a window that was in the opposite side of the window from where we had been peeking before. We crawled until there and looked over the window. The lights were on and the doctor was there, so it probably was the room where he had got in before. I recognized the room, it was the one I had woken up when I had gotten there for the first time. The man was holding something in his hand and carrying it until a bed. There was someone lying on that bed, the sheets were all bloody. It was a kid but I couldn't really see his face. It didn't seem like anyone I knew. The doctor lifted the ambrosia to the kid's mouth. Then he lifted the blankets and started touching some bandages, more blood came out and I heard a loud "beeaaah!" coming from across the room.
"Grover?" a whisper escaped my mouth as I saw the creature who had released that sound. "What th-" I looked at Nicco and he gave me a puzzled look, appearing to be as confused as I was. Then the room door opened and both Nicco and I ducked down instantly. "Calm down or leave Grover." I heard Chiron say. I peeked through the window again Chiron was looking at the doctor as he worked bent over the person who was lying there. The doctor was moving his hands very quickly stitching and cleaning like a trauma surgeon. When he stepped away from the bed I saw an amount of compresses soaked in blood in his hands and so did Grover who gasped in horror, about to release one of his nervous beahs when Chiron looked at him. Chiron didn't need to say anything, Grover covered his mouth with his hands and didn't say a word. "Is she going to survive?" Chiron asked the doctor. So the person was actually a girl, it instantly thought of Thalia but rapidly removed that thought from my head. Thalia was with Artemis, she was one of her huntresses and even if she got hurt she wouldn't be sent to the Half Blood Camp. "I managed to stanch the bleeding but the next couple hours are going to be critical" the doctor answered. "She can start bleeding again and with this much blood lost it is only going to make it harder for her to heal."
"She's strong. She's going to make it." Grover said.
"I don't doubt you Grover" Chiron assured him. "Now all we have left to do is wait and let her rest. So let's do it. Come." As he left he took Grover with him and closed the door behind him. Nicco and I heard noise coming closer and we ran back to our cabins not giving anyone a chance to catch us. We didn't even get to talk.