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Camp Half Blood Campers' Correspondence a Year Later-
[Scipio Evans to Molly and Skinner Evans]
Letter to mom and dad: number 1
Dear mom,
I gotta admit, I thought it would be cooler to have more siblings. Camp is really cool and we've got one of the biggest, coolest cabins on the grounds, but my cabin-mates aren't all that much fun. There's this Belle girl who loves horses, like, a lot. I think horses are pretty all right, but she won't really stop talking about them. Thankfully she spends a lot of time at the stables so it's not too bad. She's about the same age as Carolina so I really don't mind her too much. There's also Charlie and he barely talks at all to anyone. He's really not happy that he has siblings. I think he had pictured his dad to not be the type that had so many girlfriends. Even when we have class together, he won't talk to us. He doesn't say anything. Even when we're out on the boats where I'm not falling on my face, he won't talk to me. Although part of that might also because he thinks I made fun of his bracelet. He wears this braided pearl bracelet and it looks like something grandma would wear and it was really just a harmless joke and he said that if his mom was wearing it she wouldn't have died and then Percy whacked me really hard.
Percy Jackson is our head counselor. He's the oldest Poseidon kid we know of and he was really super ticked when he found other kids in his cabin. We had already been in the cabin for a few days with orientation and everything and Percy walks in one morning, I'm sprawled out on the floor because you know I can barely walk on dry land, Percy takes one look at us and starts flipping out, like yelling and shouting and everything. He was so mad. He wasn't mad at us. He was mad at his dad. He stormed right out of the cabin and water started to burst out of the ground and he went over to Chiron first and then stormed back into the cabin and went to this salt-water fountain we have in the back of the cabin and called up our god dad, but god dad wouldn't answer.
The whole demi-god world is really cool. If you throw a drachma, which is the old greek money and it's this big gold coin, into a rainbow you can make a call to anyone you want. Percy tried calling Poseidon to get him to explain where all us kids came from. He wasn't angry that god dad had girlfriends, he was angry because god dad had kids that he didn't know about. You probably didn't know this, but there was this huge war between the gods and there was this prophecy that a kid of Zeus, Poseidon, or Hades was gonna save everyone or something. It already happened, but apparently those gods weren't suppose to have kids and Percy thought that he was the only one Poseidon had. He was really surprised with Charlie because Charlie's only a little bit younger than him, which means that if anything had happened to Percy, Charlie would've been the one who fulfilled the prophecy, or it might've been this girl in Zeus' cabin. I don't know. I never asked. I think it just annoys Percy that he had to go through so much and then find out that his dad had been hiding kids from him and everyone else. Percy's gotten a bit nicer since then. He really isn't mad at us so don't worry.
We have a Cyclops brother, too. His name's Tyson and he's huge. He scared me really bad when I first met him, but he's nice and he's good at cleaning and he's stopped me from falling off the bunk a few times. He built me shelves for my Jules Verne collection. There are a bunch of cool people here. Some of them are kind of mean, like the kids from the Ares cabin, but when Percy's around no one bothers us. There are a few kids that I went to orientation with that are kinda mean, but there are a bunch of nice ones too. I'm really looking forward to training. Maybe by the time I get home I won't trip over my own feet. I'm going to try my best here, although I will miss the yachts. Say hi to Carolina for me.
From, Skipper.
Letter End.
Poseidon Cabin - Cabin 3