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Camp Half Blood Campers' Correspondence a Year Later-
[Ross Argyle to Lauren Argyle]
Dear mom,
We're alive. We made it and we're all settled in. Our cabin's not as big as some of the other cabins and a bunch of the bunks are empty, but our beds here are really nice. I guess they figured that was important since our dad's the god of sleep. I figured that crazy-eyed dude that would visit us was our dad, but I didn't realize he was a god or anything. It's pretty cool. All the kids here have some sort of god parent. Sean's in the Apollo cabin and it's huge. They had us watch a video with a bunch of other kids about the camp. The camp's pretty cool. It doesn't have a soccer field, but it has a climbing wall that spews lava and we can learn how to ride flying horses and how to throw spears at stuff. We saw some kids practicing in the arena on the way to the mess hall/temple/thing and some of them are really good at it. Chiron, the old guy in the wheelchair that we saw when we got here, is actually a centaur and he gave us a tour of the camp after the movie with all these satyrs and he showed us the stables and the Armory and the Amphitheater. We got to meet Dionysus! He's this big guy in this leopard print shirt who runs the camp. The movie said that he's a god too and he's got kids here, but we figured he didn't want to be at camp. He complained the whole time about all the construction that's going on.
Our cabin's brand new. Jett, the other guy in our cabin, said that there wasn't a Morpheus cabin when he got here and they hurried to finish it after he told them who he was. Chiron said there was this huge battle that happened last year and the year before, and stuff, where they all had to fight off this Titan guy who was trying to wreck the camp and save the world and stuff. And when all the kids saved all the gods, this one kid said that the gods had to claim all of their kids and treat all the other gods fairly so then all the new demi-god kids needed cabins (All us half god kids are called demi-gods). I figured they already had been building cabins all year. There are twelve main cabins for the main gods, but now all the other gods need cabins for their kids too and there weren't any Morpheus kids until Jett got here. Thanks to him, we don't have to wait for a cabin.
I'll write more next time.
Sincerely, Ross
Morpheus Cabin –
P.S. After the movie, when Chiron asked if there any questions, Paul jumped up before I could stop him and asked where he could mail his letter. Chiron says that we can't use cell phones here because it gives away where we are, but since they mail letters from the post office and that all the return letters go to this big P.O. box, that mailing letters was okay. He told all the kids that we should all write letters home if we want so now a bunch of kids are writing letters, too.