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Camp Half Blood Campers' Correspondence a Year Later-[Sean Argyle to Lauren Argyle]
Dear mom,
I told you I would write a letter so I am. At the moment, I am one of seventeen claimed children of Apollo at this camp. They all have different stories, but mostly you can trace back reasons for Apollo's interest in them. Several of the kids are too young to actually be living in the Apollo cabin, but they've been claimed. The story goes that Apollo claimed all his children at once, alerting the entire mystical world of their locations, which caused a great deal of trouble, especially to the children who are toddlers. Apollo had a very strange bruise on his head the day he showed up at camp with the twins Lute and Viola (or Lute + Lullaby as the girls call them). I'm told the bruise wasn't caused by defending the babies from a monster, but from Artemis being royally ticked at him when he tricked her into thinking their mother was dead. From what I have seen of dad, I'm expecting many more battle wounds.
I'm doing fine. Everyone's nice, although a few of them are more than a little confused that I have siblings in a different cabin. I've been looking out for them. We barely have any activities together, but I try to check out for them during meal times. Their head counselor, Jett Boyd, whose real name may or may not actually be Sandy, has been watching them like a hawk, despite how indifferent he may seem. Jett was in the war, although I'm sure Paul and Ross have already told you that. Much of my cabin is new, but at least half of them were in the war too. From what I've been told, it sounds like a few years back, the Hermes head counselor went psychotic and decided he wanted to wage a rebellion against the gods. He gathered up stray campers and monsters and titans and whoever would join him. The first big battle was when the guy tried to use this secret labyrinth to break into the camp, but the campers beat him back. After that, of course, everyone finds out that the kid is trying to resurrect crazy, evil titan and gets possessed and leads this huge war against Olympus so it was all the campers and the Olympiad gods versus a whole bunch of deities that were ticked at them and a kid possessed by a Titan. The kids win, of course, hence the survival of the known world, but to keep it from happening the top camper had all the gods promise to claim their kids and treat all the minor gods fairly. This is why Apollo claimed all his kids in one go and also why Ross and Paul get their own cabin this year, otherwise they would've ended up in Hermes because it seems like the minor gods didn't bother to claim their kids before they had to either.
Jett was one of the kids fighting against the gods. He was bitter that he was never claimed. Morpheus, if you didn't already know, had also been fighting against the gods. Seems like he wasn't a very cool guy either, because when Jett ran into his dad who had ignored his existence, he bailed out of the battle all together and went neutral.
The camp set up an obelisk for those lost in the war that I think is made out of the same material that the Vietnam memorial is made out of. After Paul and Ross go to bed (they always come to say good-night), Jett will hang out at the obelisk. It's a little creepy sometime when you forget he's there, but a harmless hobby, I'm sure. I don't think there's cause to worry. He didn't actually fight in the war and he came back to camp in spite of it all, so I think something about him's got to be in the right place. He's been good to the guys, not that I'm going to let him completely take over my brotherly duties.
Just thought you'd like to know.
I'm sure Ross and Paul will send you all that you need to know in their letters, but I know Paul at least will count these letter when we get home and won't let me hear the end of it if I don't write you enough.
Love you, mom.
Your eldest, Sean
Apollo Cabin – Cabin 7