On the outside looking in (Lotus)

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Ashanti had never really understood anything to do with love. It wasn't that she had no feelings to be compared to those in her heart. If anything could be said, she probably loved Artemis like a mother. However, things like love had a tainted view for the the old child. Having lived a long life without love hadn't made her cold, or distant. All it managed to do in the long run was give her an annoyed kind of confusion. She didn't understand all this fuss in the more recent centuries about falling in love and finding the knight in shining armour. From what she'd seen, many knights were arrogant man seeking only gain from a marriage, hardly the noble fighters that people said appeared in novels. Ashanti couldn't read. She had never been deemed worthy of the skill by anybody (apart from perhaps people in the hunt) and had never needed or desired to learn it after she'd joined the hunt. A slave had no use for reading after all. They were there to do the dirty work and to have dance for entertainment in any way their master desired. There was little to no love in that world, where marriage was more often for lust and material gain than love. Wealth married wealth and slaves married slaves, if their masters even allowed it. Ashanti was a bastard child of a rich noble but was given nothing good in return. Shunned by him and possibly just waiting for her turn to become the unwilling lover to one of his friends. 

So Ashanti, once again filled with that annoying sense of curiosity, stood in front of the Aphrodite cabin, looking in. Perhaps hoping some sort of clue was waiting in there. Although she didn't want love, she wanted to understand why others might want it so that she could guard herself from it. "I'm not going to be such an idiot." The girl told herself with determination, sitting down and sharpening one of the hunting knives given to her by Artemis. Her bow was in the cabin and Bloodfang was out in the woods for a run. The poor wolf got bored at times. She was sharpening her knives as she looked at the cabin of what was supposed to be love. Why was it so ridiculous anyway? Sticking the knife in the ground she retrieved an apple from her pocket and slowly started to chew on it, contemplating the entire matter. This world was truly going crazy. Well, at least slavery was over now. Nobody would meet that fate. Perhaps the world would become a better place in the end. 

@lotuscwestlund

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Love, attention somtimes,and making sure her brother Sam didn't nag her was always on the 16 year old daughter of Aphrodites mind. She would always dating guys she had lost count. She was often considered a Slore before she had came to Camp Half Blood. Though her whole reason she had dated any of them was because she wanted to find the one, her knight in shining armor as some would say. She didn't care if she ended up being called what she was back before she came to camp. Often her brother would try to stop her but often failed and after she wouldn't hear the end of it. Lotus adjusted the sleeve of her t shirt quietly as she exited the cabin. She stopped seeing Ashanti quietly . "hello um may i ask what your name is?"She asked. She sorta felt bad that she didn't but of course most of the people at camp she had yet to meet.

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A little doll was coming out of the doll house! Okay, so the girl was hardly little and not exactly a doll but what was it with those people being some sort of ridiculously pretty? Not that it bothered Ashanti, if anything it almost made her uneasy, like it wasn't natural. Even after countless years of hunting with a Goddess some parts of the world still managed to freak her out. This was certainly one of those things. Demigod powers. Ashanti only had the powers that Artemis had blessed her with when she'd joined the hunt and that faint silver glow still had the girl in awe some days. Normal people were not supposed to glow, even though she was far from normal by now. She was a huntress of Artemis, a position she filled with much pride. Maybe one day she could be her lieutenant. Ashanti smiled slightly as the creepily pretty girl asked her name. "Ashanti. May I request yours in return?" She asked politely, looking at the girl and trying to hold back the urge to shudder. It was be kind of rude to shudder at the sight of her. It was possibly that Aphrodite stuff that got under her skin. It resulted in sickness far too often. A sickness of the mind. A fierce and jealous kind of love that turned to lust and bad things. Ashanti was very happy that she would not fall victim to that.

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"Ashanti thats a pretty name never heard of one like it before"Lotus commented then blinked and said"oh and my name's Lotus"she said with a slight smile. She was quiet for a moment not sure what to say to the girl. She could notice the faint silver glow around the girl but didn't say anything"soo um what brings you to be standing outside the Aphrodite cabin?"Lotus asked. She smiled in a friendly way. She was a bit curious and it didn't hurt to ask, did it?. The 16 year old waited patently for Ashanti's answer though she didn't mind if she wouldn't answer.