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Camp Half Blood Campers' Correspondence a Year Later-[Wendy Pelletier to Erica Pelletier ]
Dear Mum,
I'm good and the kids are great. They follow me around like a bunch of little lost ducklings. Calais and Zetes even look the part (They're the kids with the wings). Zephyr acts moody while he does it, and he'd probably deny if you asked, but he's following me around too. Everything here seems to make him grumpy. Every time the Boreas Brothers went out for flight training, he'd mope on the veranda. I think he likes the veranda, though, because I keep catching him playing with all the wind chimes we got hanging there. We made a bunch in Arts + Crafts the other day. The Ares cabin thought it was really lame and started terrorizing little Jason who's proper not able to defend himself. So then Zephyr and I went and bargained with the Hermes cabin to help us out in getting them back. We painted their cabin pink, got the B-Bros to hide their bore's head on top of the stables and replace it with a paper-maché unicorn head. The Ares cabin had a crazy fit when they got back from Intermediate Hydra training with the Justice Cabin, the undead kids, and the Hyperion Trio. The Ares kids probably would've retaliated hard-core, but the first Capture the Flag game of the summer was the next day and the Hermes kids they wouldn't team up with Ares unless us Wind kids were with them. Zephyr and I got them taking our bathroom cleaning duty and our stable duty for the week. It was proper satisfying.
We lost the Capture the Flag game because the Hades kids summoned some sort of undead things at us that were immune to our ingenious sleeping trap and stole off with our flag. It was good for the B-Bros, though. We talked them into doing some scouting and that made them all excited. Good thing the Apollo kids, with their bows and arrows, were on our team, or else that would've really sucked. I had volunteered to go up in my hand-glider, but that was before the Janus kids wrecked it.
The Janus kids are puny. Tiny tiny. I guess Janus jumped the gun on claiming his kids. One's 3 and one's 5. They spend most of their time in the Hera/Ilithyia Nursery, but they seem to find their way back to Jason during naptime. I think they came in together. I'm not sure if it's because they're Janus kids, or if they actually haven't learned to talk yet, but they both speak absolutely rubbish all the time. We've been baby-sitting them off and on for a while now, when the Ilithyia lady lets them out, and we still don't know what their names are. Every time we ask, one starts with the gibberish and one goes back and forth between gibberish and what seems to sound like Shakespeare. Oddly enough, the bigger only seems to be speaking Shakespearian when you're not looking at him.
They started building a cabin for the Titan kids yesterday a few up from ours. The campers don't seem to like the idea of kids of Hyperion or Kronos being welcome in the camp, not that Kronus had any kids. Most of all the Titans faded out already, so I think the cabin's meant a bit more for symbolism's sake, or else it'll be where we put kids who come along so rarely that it seemed reasonable to put them in one cabin, like Prometheus' kids, or grandchildren of Atlas. Helios, Selene, and Eos all have their own cabins already. The Titan cabin's not done yet, but I feel like Chiron might know a kid or two that should go in there, or else I don't think he'd be building it before he built the Iris cabin or something. Not the Iris cabin is complaining. They have a wicked tent set-up. One of the guys there is the boyfriend of the Eros girl who helps out with the B-Boys flying lessons, so I got a tour of the place.
Camp keeps me interesting. I'll write again soon.
Sincerely,
Your dearest daughter,
Wendy Pelletier
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