Thought is the Wind (Open)

[Lydia Shepard]

"Oh, trust me," Lydia said with a lighthearted laugh. "I probably use it a lot more than anything else I know." She couldn't tell how many times she had to talk her surrogate brother, Ant, out of doing something stupid, like running away from camp to fight monsters. It stressed her out, but knowing she could use reverse psychology on him worked out in the end.

But then there was the question of Lydia's other interests. She pursed her lips together as she tried to think. "Well..." she said as she gathered up here thoughts. "I do like learning about ethics and Greek philosophers." She laughed once she realized how she sounded. "I'm sorry," she said as she shook her head. "I really do not have normal interests for someone who is only seventeen years old. Other girls my age are more concerned about boys and makeup, but no. I study the brain and things associated with it."

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From how she said it, Chad was beginning to see her as the pseudo-psychologist of the camp, which was very intriguing as it was something unique that she contributed. This was of course admirable as well as inspiring to him, and now he was beginning to think of what he could offer that others could not. Sadly, there wasn't much that he was good at aside from coming up with stories to tell his younger sister, which would only be useful if they had to distract a monster or something.

When she listed the rest of her interests, it came as a nice change of pace from what he had gathered about other girls, but she seemed to think that an apology was in order. "If there is one thing that I have learned from living here, normality is greatly overrated, and honestly I wish that my own interests were as unique as yours. Unfortunately, my focus seems to be on studying the abilities that I inherited from my father, which can be quite boring."

[Lydia Shepard]

"Unique is a nice way of phrasing it," Lydia said as a slight smile crept onto her lips. "My siblings would call them crazy, but we're also children of a god of insanity." She laughed as she shook her head before moving to push her hair out of her face. She looked over at Chad as she smiled a bit more. "Nah," she said with slight chuckle. "I don't find that boring. You have wind powers, right? So you can make things move or maybe fly yourself? I know I would want to mess with Chiron and move all his furniture slightly to the left an inch. Just enough that it's not too noticeable, but enough that it would drive him insane bumping into things."

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"Well, if it is any consolation, you seem perfectly sane to me," he stated. If anything, Chad was the crazier one for being so willing to put his life on the line to get rid of a dream, and asking a stranger for help in doing it probably didn't help that argument any. At least they were past that part so she couldn't exactly focus on that potential connection.

When she mentioned practical joking, it occurred to the young man that while not really his thing that it would make for a great training exercise, which he would have to remember later. "Most of the time, I just freeze things, but yeah I do have some wind power. Haven't tried flying with it though because I'm not that great at it. There is also something about horses, but I don't interact with them enough to use that aspect. How about you?"

[Lydia Shepard]

Lydia laughed as she shook her head. "Normal is a relative idea, but thanks. I try to act sane. I find that people tend to be weirded out if people start acting strange or unusual." Lydia liked to think she was normal or at least as normal she could be in a cabin full of partiers. That was the one thing she didn’t really get about her siblings. She didn’t know why they wanted to party all the time, but Lydia pushed that thought out of her mind. There was no reason why she wanted to think about that while talking to Chad.

She listened to him as he listed his powers. And to be honest, Lydia was a little bit jealous. She wanted wind and ice powers! She laughed and shook her head when he asked about her powers. “Mainly I can make grapes and strawberry plants,” she said as a slight smirk as she looked at him. “I’m trying to figure out how to make people insane for a little bit, but it’s something I haven’t quite mastered yet. But your powers definitely sound cooler.”

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"Yeah, people seemed to always be apprehensive against anything that disrupts what they think is the natural order of things. One would think that they would appreciate anything that would add some excitement to their days," he commented. Then again, some recent events had proven too exciting and too real to ask for more, but Chad assumed that came with the territory of being a child of a deity. It would be nice if at least a birthday card of some sort was a part of that package, but he guessed that the rules were in place to keep meddling down to a minimal.

Cooler powers? Whether or not she was making a pun or being serious, but it seemed rather ironic that she could make people go insane given all that they had talked about. "I don't know. Making people lose their minds during a fight sounds like it would be a lot safer than accidentally freezing someone's arm, and at least you can make most of a fruit salad without trying. So there's that."

[Lydia Shepard]

"Well if we go by that logic," Lydia had to argue. Debates of this sort of nature was something she enjoyed. "Then we would be technically disrupting the natural order of things. I mean, children of the Greek gods?" She smirked as she shook her head. Sometimes it was hard for her to comprehend what everything at camp really meant. She was a child of a god and one that ran the camp. It was pretty silly. "That just screams out 'disrupting natural order' to me."

"Fruit salad?" Lydia had to laugh. "It would be the most pathetic excuse of a fruit salad, unless you really liked strawberries and grapes. I would like a little bit of melon or cantaloupe in there myself before I would consider it a fruit salad. I still think your powers are much better."