Wandering [Open]

[Maya Daniels]

I am a demigod. Funny isn't it? How life can change so quickly. One moment Maya Daniels was ordinary girl. The next moment she was a demigod. At Camp Half Blood, where she'll really learn who she is, who she is meant to be; a daughter of Aphrodite. She does not know this yet. This comes later on in her new story. But for now, her father's lecturing her about safety. As if the word belongs in the dictionary of a demigod. No running into unnecessary battles, stay away from poisons, etc, etc. The teenage girl sighed and reassured her father as they made it to the base of the hill.

"I know dad. I'll be careful." He only nodded in reply and helped her with her bags as they both stared at the tall pine at the top.

"Do you think I can handle it?" Maya turned to her dad, now doubting if she was really meant for this life. He sighed and pulled her into a warm hug, one last time before she leaves him for the summer.

"You can do anything you put your mind to. Now go, have fun." With one last kiss on her forehead and a gentle push, Maya made her climb to the top, looking ahead. Taking a deep breath, she stepped within the camp boundaries.

Sooooo now what? She stood alone at the top of the great hill, the view of camp sprawled before her. Not too sure as to what to do with herself, she decided to wander, explore the camp on her own. She'd notice glance at her as she walked by but never stopped to introduce herself, too shy and unfamiliar to her surroundings to really approach anyone yet. Eventually found herself at the lake, watching campers have fun with friends. Wanting to ease her nerves she dropped her bags at the base of a tree and slipped her shoes off to dip her feet into the water. She sighed to herself, taking in the fresh air; something different from the stuffy downtown air she's used to. I can get used to this. 

[Atalanta Nikolaou]

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Come, surf the clouds, Race the dark, It feeds from the runs undone, Meet me where the cliff greets the sea Do you think you can keep up?

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"Get back here or I swear to Hades you will regret you were ever born!" She yelled as she chased the son of Hermes all the way from the Cabins down to the lake. Atalanta had a perfectly normal day so far, until she got back to her cabin and found out that a son of Hermes had managed to get past the mines and was snooping around her stuff. She had startled him and he had run a way with what he had managed to grab at that moment of panic. A hard drive. But not just any plain old hard drive. It was the hard drive with her mother's photographs. One of the few things she had from her family, now blown to dust.

Of course the son of Hermes wasn't one to follow orders and he had been sprinting about for quite sometime. Unfortunately for him, Atalanta was rather good at this game. Being on the run for a month and practising parkour out of hobby was more than enough to allow the daughter of Ares to catch up to the boy as he tried to make an escape to the Lake. Unfortunately for him, Atalanta was not in the mood to play nice and she tackled the boy to the ground. He wrestled him to the ground for the hard-drive case and they tumbled closer and closer to the water's edge. It was clear that Atalanta would prevail, and the boy began to panic more as she punched him in the face.

That was enough to send them both tumbling in the water. As soon as her back came in contact with the water, Atalanta's first thought was to keep the device from getting wet, as she was the one currently in possesion of the drive and had been the one to land on the down side. That provided the Hermes boy to scramble up and run away with a broken nose.
Muttering under her breath, she angrily got up and out of the water, her Camp T-shirt completely soaked and her ponytail drenched. A familiar barking caught her attention. It appeared as though Lycaon, her German Sheperd, had followed the chase to the best of his abilities and had managed to sniff his way to the Lake. But while his owner was busy punching noses, the black pup had found a better way to occupy himself. He had gone over to a girl sitting under a tree and had barked, tail wagging happily, demanding pets and attention.

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Maya Daniels

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[Maya Daniels]

While Maya was enjoying her time, her thoughts were interrupted by a German Shepherd barking at her. She opened her eyes and smiled at the dog, scratching the pet behind the ears who barked in approval. "Well hello there! Now who do you belong to?" She looked around her as she stood, scanning the area for the dog's potential owner and found a girl by the water, drenched head to toe. Maya grabbed a spare towel from her bag and led the dog over to hand the towel to the girl. "Um, hi I was wondering if this was your dog? He kinda came over to me and I don't know where he came from..."

[Atalanta Nikolaou]

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Come, surf the clouds, Race the dark, It feeds from the runs undone, Meet me where the cliff greets the sea Do you think you can keep up?

❞

Atalanta was about to snap at the next person about to talk to her, too distraught about her mother's hard drive being potentially damaged. But when she turned and saw the towel and Lycaon in tow, she took a deep breath to calm her anger and took the towel with a grateful smile. "Yeah that's Lycaon. He must've followed me from the Cabin. He is still too young to fully keep up with chases like this one." She answered the girl's question and used the towel,
not to dry herself first, but to make sure to wipe off any water that might've touched the hard-drive case.

"Thanks for the towel. I'm Atalanta by the way." She introduced herself and took her shirt off, stripping to her athletic bra and using the towel to dry herself up. She didn't bother to put her shirt back on. Instead, she twisted it around to get the excess water out, after she gave the towel back to the other. All the while, the pup had been runing back and forth between the two girls, playing by himself and rubbing against their legs before bounding off again.

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Maya smiled shyly and introduced herself. "It's nice to meet you. I'm Briar, I sorta just got here." She stood there awkwardly as Atalanta continued to dry herself off, not too sure as to what to do with herself. "So um, I'm not actually sure what I'm supposed to do... I was wondering if maybe you could show me around? Or at least lead me in the right direction? If you're busy I can try to find my way around but I kinda don't want to make a fool out of myself..." Great. Now I'm rambling. "Sorry, I start to ramble on when I'm nervous... Bad habit."

[Atalanta Nikolaou]

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Come, surf the clouds, Race the dark, It feeds from the runs undone, Meet me where the cliff greets the sea Do you think you can keep up?

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Atalanta smiled in acknowledgement of the other's name, but when Briar said how she had just gotten to Camp and immediately went rambling out of nervousness, Atalanta had to tilt her head and study her. "Wow, someone got hella lucky." She said, mostly to herself rather than Briar. Briar looked as if she was merely dropped off for a casual summer camp, whereas she had woken up in the infirmary.

"Well I can't tell you exactly how newbies are supposed to be oriented if they haven't woken up in the infirmary on the first day. But I can tell you for sure you should talk to Chiron. He will get you sorted or ask one of the senior campers to do so. I'm actually new here too. Only been to Camp for about a month now, so I'm not sure I'm the one who should give you a tour." She said to Briar and tucked her wet shirt in the backpocket of her pants. Motioning for her to follow, she completely ignored the part she had apologized for rambling and for being nervous, not deeming it worthy of a reply. In Atalanta's experience, that nervousness only grew if you tried to comfort the other. But then again she was a daughter of Ares, comforting wasn't her strong suit.

"What I do know for sure is that you are sooner or later going to feel embarrassed. The guy I wrestled in the water?He is a son of Hermes. Kids from their cabin are bound to prank or steal your stuff sooner rather than later. So unless you get claimed today, you will end up sleeping in their cabin." She warned as she turned to leave the lake and head for the Big House, which was one of the two most likely spots for Chiron to be.

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