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Camp Half Blood Campers' Correspondence a Year Later-[Alec Cunningham to Lt. Cunningham]
Dear Sir.
There are a lot of plants here and animals. And things that aren't plants or animals or are both. Or are both and human, which I guess are animals. Technically. A Minotaur looks a lot more like an animal than a human, and Cyclopes look like humans and like Cyclopes, which look like giants, which look like humans, but with one eye. And big arms. And hair that looks like they cut it themselves. With an hacksaw. There's not a lot of Cyclopes here, though. Mostly one. Sometimes more show up.
We got nymphs. The tree nymphs are part human part plant. Dryads. We've got kids of dryads too. And kids of neriads and naiads. You'd think that water nymphs would look more like mermaids, but a lot of the time they just look people, except under water. Weaving baskets.
There are satyrs. They're part human, part goat, although they don't like being called human or goat. Dryads don't like being called human, either. It's usually better not to describe them to people. We got harpies. They eat and clean stuff. Sometimes at the same time. It's usually better not to go anywhere near them or they'll maim you. I don't know why there'd be such a terrible defense system for a camp filled with kids anywhere between the ages of 18 to newly born. I think it's fine. Keeps me on my toes.
We've got centaurs. And by centaurs I mean we have one who knows other ones, but usually it's just that one. He's cool. He doesn't mind if you describe him as half horse. We got dragons. Some of them are robotic. I don't talk to them much, but I know how to defeat one. Or two. Or a flight of them. I call in my backup when I'm fighting a flight of them. My cabin's cool. We got kids. They're smart. Usually they don't like being described as brain-children. Personally, that image disturbs me. I know Athena was born when Zeus cracked his head open with a headache, but I'd feel horrible for mom if all of the kids in here had to be cracked out of her skull. Not that coming of her ears or something would be better. We'd probably fit out of her ears if she was in her big form. I'm told she has a big form. I've never seen it, so I don't know. I've never met her.
We've got giant scorpions. There's a hell-hound that likes to chew on things when she's around. The flesh-eating ponies are kept away from the pegasi, which are kept away from the fire-breathing ponies, which are kept away from the flaming ponies, which are kept away from the sacred cows, which are kept away from the lotus. And the sheep.
We've got wild boars. And deer. They're tasty when you can catch them. The peacocks are not. And people only like my hunting skills during class. And Capture the Flag. Our team won. I helped strategize. I'm also helping with the chariots. We got two. We're not allowed to have more than two. It would be more of an unfair advantage against the cabins that are too small to have more than one.
We've got giant ants. They are not so fun. And hard to kill. Like woh. Not are hard as the fire-breathing robots, but usually there are a lot more ants. There's also quicksand. And lemurs. We don't know how let those in. And giant squirrels.
I must go.
Alec Cunningham
Athena Cabin – Cabin 6