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Camp Half Blood Campers' Correspondence a Year Later-[Phil Ortega to Lisa Ortega]
Hey, little sis. I'm writing to you just like I promised.
Do you remember when I told you about all those big battles that were going on last year and how it was all of us kids verses all these renegade gods and titans and stuff? And that when we won there were this one kid who told the gods they had to claim all their kids? Well, that kid and his quest buddies all showed up yesterday and Chiron, the centaur guy I told you about, just had this big announcement that because there were sooo many kids arriving at camp now that the gods have to claim them, some of them still being pretty young, that we were going to have a bunch of new teachers.
We've had new teachers before, like once it was a robotic clone of Daedalus from that Icarus story where Daedalus is this great inventor and he and his son, Icarus, get imprisoned by this Minos guy unless he creates this big Labyrinth and then to escape he makes wings for him and his son with wax, but then his son flies too close to the sun and it melts his wings and he falls into the sea. You remember that story, right? Well, we had that guy as a teacher once. He was pretty awesome, but he only lasted one year. This year Chiron said we'd have a bunch of new teachers. He introduced a few of them.
The coolest thing is is that they're demi-gods! They're older demi-gods and they use to go to camp here. Most of them are about college age because if they had normal jobs they wouldn't have their summers off, but they all look really cool. None of them are from my cabin yet, but that's cool since my cabin's new and Chiron says there's more coming, just like there's supposed to me more kids coming all summer. More people show up every day. It's crazy.
When I get to meet them all, I'll tell you all about them.
Love you, sis. Say hi to mom for me.
Phil Ortega
Helios Cabin