Chapter 4- Octavian gets a pasta bath
Younger siblings are annoying. Take Jason Grace, a younger sibling, annoying. Or Reyna, a younger sibling, annoying. OR ALEXANDER. REALLY REALLY ANNOYING. Octavian had another headache. He'd been up at Jupiter's temple for two hours, making sacrifices and listening to Jupiter's thunder. The thunder was only part of what gave him a headache, mostly it was the things he saw. After recounting his visions to Reyna he stood, a bit off balance at roll call and then went to eat lunch with Reyna, Jason, and of course, his annoying little brother. Octavian picked at his food, he was silent and moody and he wanted to take an aspirin and lie down for five hours. Alexander started saying something and Octavian snapped at him, he was in no mood for Alexander's optimistic rambling. He just wanted the twelve year old to shut up and go back to their parents. He didn't belong at camp.
Then again, Octavian had never felt like he belonged at camp, so maybe his brother did belong at camp, and he was the one who needed to leave.
Alexander protested when Octavian snapped at him, and soon it turned into an argument, something that neither of them realized was quite common among brothers. The argument raged on and Octavian was this close to slapping Alexander when suddenly he felt something warm and slimy slide down his face. He'd raised his hand to slap Alexander just before Jason dumped spaghetti on his head. Octavian screeched and began yelling at Jason, and Jason yelled back,
"HITTING KIDS IS WRONG." Soon they were the ones arguing and Octavian almost forgot about the pasta in his hair, until it had dried and took forever to get out of his straw covered hair. He spent an hour in the baths and when he came out he was in even a worse mood. By now every one was talking about his pasta bath and people laughed when he walked by, making Octavian purely outraged. How dare they laugh at him, Augurs were to be respected. They'd be hopeless with out him, they wouldn't know whether a decision was good or bad.
He saw Alexander playing frisbee with a couple of campers and fury burned within. He couldn't take it anymore, his brother drove him up a wall, and he wished the boy would just go home. But he knew that wouldn't be happening in the near future, if he didn't do anything the boy would continue to be a thorn in his side. Octavian had to do something.
So he left. He got up and left camp. His life would be a lot easier if he didn't have to be Augur. If he didn't have to see things anymore. He would get less headaches and maybe he could find friends for once, instead of having a camp full of people who hated him. So he left, crossed the Little Tiber and kept going. Maybe he'd get killed by monsters. He didn't care.
They could find another augur, he refused to go through it anymore.
OOOH
