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Camp Half Blood Campers' Correspondence a Year Later-
[Mercutio Tutiliani to Bianca Tutiliani]
Camp is Awesome! The last few years were kind of crap because of all the stuff that was going on and all the stress and all the crazy training and fighting for our lives! But this year, everything's great! And there's all these new kids of all different ages. Some of them are older than me. Sometimes you can't even tell who's new and who's been here the whole time. Besides the obvious ones, anyone. There was some serious bonding last year, but there was a whole lot of chaos going around too. Ha. Chaos.
Our cabin is exploding! There are so many kids here! When ever we get new kids who don't know who their celestial parent is, they go into our cabin on top of the actual Hermes kids and now there's dozens of kids in there. After the war, when the gods had to sort all their kids, all the non-Hermes got sorted out right there, real quick. But now a summer later, there's a mega influx of kids and the gods are being lame and slow and not claiming them really fast. They're claiming them a bit faster than they did before, but that's not very fast compared to how many new kids there are. There's maybe 30 kids in there. Only half of them are actual Hermes kids, though. The Stoll brothers stole sleeping bags for us all from the camp store in one go. It was totally awesome.
Conner and Travis Stoll were supposed to be the head counselors for the Hermes cabin again like there were last year, but then this Returnee girl showed up who had been head counselor when Conner and Travis were still noobs. She walked right into the cabin and challenged them for the sleeping spot in the corner where the head counselor always sleeps and they got totally fired up. She totally whooped them. Turns out she's the new melee weapons instructor. Her name's Hilary. She's awesome. I think Conner and Travis would like her a lot more if they weren't determined to beat her at something. Unfortunately for them, she keeps challenging them at stuff. She challenged them for the 2nd best corner spot after she gave the head counselor spot when this really old Hermes kid showed up. I mean, he must be the oldest demi-god still alive. He's got to be100 or something. WWII Veteran and everything. Hermes dad himself showed up to settle him into the cabin. We made him a bed and everything. It was epic. Usually old people are obnoxious because they're slow and smell bad and are really grumpy, but this guy you just know is awesome. Every time he speaks everyone goes real quiet and then they all sit around him. He's so awesome. He's the new history teacher as well as the tactician guy. (A bunch of the new kids haven't had a proper education because they've been on the run or are really young, so he teachers them history. You can also register to listen in on his ancient Mediterranean history classes. We all get to go to his tactician classes. There were so many showing up that they moved it to the amphitheater.) He's also really good at languages so if you ask real nicely, he'll tutor you in Greek or Latin. Dr. Dominic Charles Elohim Pompei's his name, says Hilary. (Hilary says hi, by the way.) Dr. Pompei lets us get away with whatever in the cabin, but the second you show up to his class, he'll totally deck you if you do anything wrong, or if you forget to refer to him with Doctor. He's big on that. He's an awesome old guy. He doesn't get up 5 times a night to go to the bathroom or anything. In fact, I'm not sure if the old guy sleeps at all.
We got another Returnee too, besides those 2, but the guy's like a ninja so we've barely got to see him yet. I wonder what he's gonna teach.
Got to go keep the Ares cabin from bribing the Wind Cabin kids to join their team for capture the flag. Love you. Miss you.
Your Bambino, Mercutio
Hermes Cabin - Cabin 11