Ben smiled sweetly. "Of course. That's the point of you being chosen, right?" He teased lightheartedly. Standing up, he shoved his hands into the pockets of his khakis and held out a hand to help Valentine up. "You ready to get moving? If you don't feel ready, resting more would be alright, too, although Sanaa will probably want to tell you about the prophecy."
Post by Cloverheart ✿ on Oct 12, 2016 0:00:10 GMT -5
Valentine sighed. Crutches always hurt her arms, and she didn't feel like getting up anyway. "Could you ask Sanaa to come in here, if you find her? My knee still hurts and I don't really want to move." She didn't really mind asking Sanaa for favors, since the girl was more bold and collected.
Ben nodded, looking at Joshua. "I'll go find her, you stay with Val." He said, although knowing they were supposed to stay in pairs. Somebody had to stay with Valentine, after all, and Ben would rather he be the one alone in the forest. "I'll be back as soon as I can."
"Lucia," Cecilia repeated thoughtfully, twirling a strand of her hair between her fingers. "Wasn't that the short blonde? I think she fought Asher yesterday." She didn't honestly care, but Marinette had said that she had won against Asher more than he had won against her, so she was at least slightly curious about her. Well, there was a very slight interest. She honestly couldn't care less about her.
Joshua nodded from where he was sitting. "Sure. I can do that," he replied with a small grin. "Maybe you can catch her before she gets into the Big House? She did want to go there with Justin and Val." It would be easier to wait for Sanaa to come than to search all over camp for her and miss her on accident.
Pascal opened his eyes with a small sigh, staring up at the sun from where he was resting. He felt like checking out what had happened while he had been asleep, but was too lazy to get up. At least until he forced himself to sit up. Running a hand through his hair, he made sure that it looked proper again and not messy. He was a slacker, but his looks were kind of important to him.
Yawning, he slowly dragged himself upwards, picking his sheathed sword up again moments later. It was time to see what he had missed.
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Ben offed before going out the door, making his way to the Big House quickly, hoping to catch her somewhere over the route. Finally, she caught his eye, and he jogged up to be next to her. "We found Val. But there's a bit of an issue." He said, biting his lip and he told her. "She's sprained her knee, doesn't feel like she can walk right now."
Post by Cloverheart ✿ on Oct 12, 2016 13:07:50 GMT -5
Valentine nodded, shifting herself a little bit. (Wait, where are they right now?) She did feel bad, but at least they were being nice. "Josh, how are you.. holding up?" Umiko wasn't doing too good with Manami missing, so she didn't know if he felt the same way Umi did. She didn't really know if they were close or not.
Sanaa stopped walking, taking Ben's words in with a frown. She didn't feel particularly pleased about his words, but her voice betrayed nothing. "That's not exactly a good start for a quest," she commented with a shake of her head. "I don't mind, though. Nobody else is in the infirmary right now, correct?" They could just go there if nobody who wasn't supposed to know yet was in it.
Joshua let his gaze wander over the few cupboards and cabinets as he thought his answer over. The infirmary just appeared to feel less relaxed without an Apollo camper around, but that wasn't the right trail of thought for now. So, with that in mind, he glanced back over at Val, tilling his head to the side, edges of his mouth just slightly curved upwards now. "I'm... alright," he finally replied. He couldn't actually describe how he was feeling.
"I'm just annoyed at the goddess who took her. It's not fair for her to get picked out of everybody, as selfish and dumb as that may sound." Manami was a very new camper who barely knew how to fight. Her being kidnapped was probably one of the worst things to happen.
"Yeah and she's the daughter of Zeus plus her cabin's counselor." Chevy chimmed in as a grin came on her face, "She's also good at sparring with newbies too~" she added in a bit more quietly in a hinting way before her gaze turned back to the 'sea' of sparring campers which she would join in but her mission was to 'accompany' the newbie, "Well I guess we're off to the lake then~"
"Hmm...my favorite memory? I have too many to count,but i guess, it would be the memory of meeting all you and making friends here on the forums. :3" ”One day I’m going to sit down and make a list of all the books that I finished reading....” “It's going to be a long list...”
Post by Cloverheart ✿ on Oct 12, 2016 16:06:13 GMT -5
Val examined him with a worried look. It was hard for everyone, but he was right. It must be especially hard for Manami. Where could she be? Was she alive? Was she holding up alright? She glanced away with a sigh. Here she was, one of the chosen to go on an epic quest to save everyone, and she was laying in bed with a sprained knee. But the problem was.. it wasn't like she had a confusion, and she would be able to hold herself.. so she could just go in the water if she wanted to. Her water-healing powers were pretty good, and they'd be strengthened by ocean water. So was she.. postponing? To tell the truth, she sort of didn't want to go on the quest. But she had to. So she was giving herself a little time. Just in case. Val felt pretty guilty about it, but it was necessary for her to keep herself mentally stable on this quest. "So.. what would you do.. if you had to go in the quest?" She spoke up, avoiding his eyes.
Ben nodded. "Nope, nobody. It's completely empty other than her and Joshua if you want to tell her." He replied. He hoped everything was going well at the infirmary. He'd not asked Val if the ambrosia was taking effect before he left. "We decided not to tell her, we didn't want to get anything wrong."
Cecilia nodded, purposefully ignoring everything Chevy had said beside the part about finding Nathan. She wasn't interested in sparring with Lucia. If anything, she was going to ask Asher for help. It didn't matter to her that they didn't have the same weapon, she was sure she could just switch.
Joshua blinked, just looking at her for a moment. Then, he laughed a little. "Probably... probably mess up a lot. I think it's normal if it's your first time," he replied. "I wouldn't worry too much, though. Sanaa already went on one last year, so I'm sure she can correct whatever mistake happens." Sanaa really was admirable with how collected she was. Joshua felt like he wouldn't be as collected while on a quest, because he'd be seeing so many new places.
Sanaa started walking as she heard that, signaling Justin and Serena to follow her with a motion of her hand. "Alright. And that's better than telling her something wrong and making her expect the worst, yes," she replied to what Ben has said. She wasn't sure how the prophecy could be said wrongly, but it was better to not tell her if there was the possibility of a wrong line freaking her out.
Ben nodded, agreeing as the infirmary came into view. He felt like Sanaa should explain the quest anyways, considering she was the one who received the prophecy and all. He walked in with the others, smiling a little as a hello to the two, taking a seat next to Joshua.
Post by Cloverheart ✿ on Oct 13, 2016 6:40:16 GMT -5
She didn't really get a chance to reply to Joshua when she noticed people walking in through the door. Valentine, due to her odd position of having her leg propped up, had to turned her shoulders to see who came in the door. It was Sanaa, duh, Justin, Serena, and Ben. How many people already knew? "Uh, hi." She greeted, waving at them with a thoughtful look. "So.. a quest, huh?"
Sanaa motioned for Justin and Serena to also sit down, whilst she stayed up, leaning back against the wall. "Unfortunately," Sanaa replied. "At least, unfortunately because it doesn't help much with the situation at camp so far. Beside showing me that we were right to assume that it was Mnemosyne." Breathing in a bit deeper, she said the prophecy once more:
"You shall seek the place of origin Hurry to rid the camp of mortal sin A god's fury must be tamed Whilst the innocent will be blamed
The radiant daughter of the sun The vigorous daughter of the sea And the righteous son of war Shall set out with the one who broke the oath by far."
It wasn't a very long prophecy in her opinion. At least, she felt like it didn't tell her much beside the place they had to go to and that she'd probably have to punch her dad.
Post by Cloverheart ✿ on Oct 13, 2016 15:00:32 GMT -5
Valentine sighed, scratching her head. "Vigorous.." She murmured to herself. "Is that a compliment?" She lifted her head. "Wait, why me? Why not Riley?" Riley was.. we'll Riley wasn't that vigorous. She got silent again, thinking. There were so many questions she wanted to ask, but she supposed they didn't know that much either. Place of origin.. origin of what? The gods? How confusing.