No More Attics (OPEN)

[Guinevere Capulet]

Gwen was sitting on one of the wooden chairs in front of the big house. She had just finished a photo shoot when she decided to visit her beloved camp. She didn't even change out of the designer clothes she was given. Sure the skinny black dress did attract much of the summer sun but it didn't bother her. She wasn't some ice princess. She tilted the hat down so it covered her eyes. She needed to focus, to think. She closed her eyes. Usually when she dreamed some visions came to her. It was only near quest time that she would utter an entire prophecy. However, theses visions that held glimpses into the future might help. She wished they helped. All she had gotten lately was the new flavor of ice cream in down town Manhatten. Unless the culprit was an ice cream lover at her favorite confectionery it was not going to help at all.

Gwen sighed as she slumped into the chair. The sun was beating down on her causing a nice warm feeling. The photographers were going to get mad at her. Her usual white skin was going to have a nice tan. She figured it would look good but since she was modeling dark clothing they liked having the color contrast. It was annoying. The warmth was helping to drift her into a state of sleep. Soon she was asleep.

Images of camp entered into her subconscious. People were pointing at the Apollo cabin and whispering, but others were pointing at the Hades and Minor Gods cabin. It seemed the viewpoints were between three people. Yet, it was strange to Gwen. She didn't suspect Felicity would be the culprit, she had no motive for it. Neither did anyone from the Minor Gods cabin. Sure Lilith and Felicity both had family dealing in the Underworld but that shouldn't mean anything. Then the Apollo cabin. Who would be the culprit in their? Weren't they suppose to all be healing fanatics?

Gwen awoke with a start as she heard footsteps approaching the big house. She held her hand lightly above her thigh where her hidden dagger was sheathed. Now, she had that dagger not just for campers who wanted to harm the article but for all the lowlifes who made their home in New York. Whoever it was had put Gwen onto high alert. Not to mention they awoken this model from her beauty sleep.

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[Tessa Sinclair]

Tessa had something to turn into the big house, some sort of envelope, she just happened to peak at. It was nothing big, just progresses of the people from her cabin and the patience they were treating, nothing about her. She was probably one of the few people no one even though might be the culprit. Most people though her powers couldn't be used to kill, as did she before it actually happened. She was supposed to be the kind hearted, sometimes odd girl that would use illusions to cheer people up. Someone who believed happiness was part of the healing process from any wound. That was Tessa, but she couldn't feel joy or elation. Sometimes she got glimpses of happiness when she was with her sister, but that was it. She did however feel jealousy of those with emotions, not a lot of jealousy, but enough to be uncomfortable.

With her approach Tessa noticed a woman seated in the large wooden chairs, a black hat over her face and a black dress on. Tessa looked up to the bright sun, and felt warmth all over her body. It must have been more hot than warm in that black dress, but Tessa was not going to judge. It's rather hard to judge when you don't have feelings anyway. She continued until she got to the steps, which creaked no matter what was done to them. Tessa had no idea why, but it happened and she would not have been surprised if it woke the sleeping beauty. Her hand hovered over her dagger, and Tessa had seen the movement that came with a sudden start from sleeping.

“If you though you were in danger wouldn't it be better not to sleep here? Haha, don't worry I'm just turning in some paperwork, go ahead back to sleep.” she said in a cheery voice, softly so she wouldn't wake the person anymore than they already were. Tessa was good enough with her bed side manner, and observing how people are supposed to act in certain situations that she need not have emotions. In fact it sometimes made her better than the others since rude people would make them mad. Tessa did not get mad. She has realized that what she does in recognizing how people act in certain situations was not just for her, but that everyone learned in the same way, it was a bit of a relief that she wasn't as odd as she used to think. Sometimes though she made a slip up, and a lot of the time she didn't understand people. Emotions could be tiresome sometimes. With a few more steps Tessa continued across the porch Tessa made her way to the door.

[Lilith McKinnon]

Lilith walked to the Big House, she needed to tell Chiron, a counselor or anyone there that it was the fifth time in that week that someone had messed up with her things in her cabin. She hasn’t said a thing the first, second, third and fourth times, because she thought that if she didn’t say a thing, then whoever was doing that would get tired of it and would leave her alone, but this time while messing her stuff they had broken a very beautiful necklace that was her mother’s. It was maybe one of the only things that she could bring to the camp from home when everything went literally to hell in her life.

She was walking kind of angry to the huge building. She was trying to control herself, she didn’t want to knock someone out just because they crossed her path in that moment and she didn’t want to do it either because that would give the other campers more stuff to mess with her, to haunt her because of the murder of that camper some days ago. In the hand she was holding the pieces of the necklace, maybe later after she told Chiron about her complain, she would take it to the forges and ask someone in there to fix it. But maybe she wouldn’t, how could she trust them to do a good job on that piece of fine jewelry?!

She saw some campers that looked at her when she passed in front of them, some of them just looked at her, while others muttered on her back and pointed at her. She just rolled her eyes and kept walking. Other looked at her and half smiled at her, as if they were trying to tell her that they believed she was innocent. But from all camp the percentage of campers who supported were more or less, the 1 to 5 percent of them. She nodded at them but didn’t smile, she was very upset to do such a thing.

When she got to the Big House, she saw that in the front was someone sitting on a chair, she was wearing a beautiful black dress. That kind of outfit was completely out of place in the camp, but she knew the owner, the girl wearing it was camp’s new oracle. She had met her some days ago and even when she didn’t trust people easily, Gwen, which was her name, made her feel less paranoid. Maybe if she told that girl she had a useful advice about it. But then before she reached the house, she saw a blond girl walking into the house. She frowned and knew she wouldn’t be able to talk freely with that girl there.

She approached to the house and looked at both of them. “Good day Gwen, is good to see you back in the camp.” Half smiled at the oracle, then she glanced at the blond girl and then looked back at Gwen. “Is Chiron in the house?” Lilith didn’t know Gwen had been asleep or that the blond girl had awaken her just seconds ago.

[Guinevere Capulet]

She lifted her hat up to see the person. It was a camper. One of those Apollo kids. Gwen relaxed her hand and moved it away from the hidden dagger. She smirked. That girl, what was her name again? Tessa, Gwen believed. That girl was right. Perhaps it wasn't safe for Gwen to lounge on the balcony of the Big House. Then where was she suppose to go? The attic? Ha! She heard about one of the old ones who got mummified up there. Like hell she would spend her time in a dusty old attic filled with Demigod memorabilia. Talk about depressing.

"Would you prefer me to be in the attic?" Gwen asked sarcastically. Even if the camper said yes Gwen wouldn't care. "Papers? About what? Also, can't go back to sleep. Too awake now." Gwen stated. She was genuinely curious about those papers. What if they held information about the killer. This could help her perhaps with her visions. Speaking of visions, wasn't the Apollo cabin featured in it? Perhaps she should question Tessa about her cabin mates. "Oh, I need to speak with you later!" Gwen called to Tessa with a friendly smile.

Gwen turned at the sound of another person approaching. It was Lilith. Gwen smiled. She knew the girl of Thanatos, who had,'t? People believe she is the cause of the murder. Honestly, Gwen had no idea who or what to believe. Yet, a gut feeling was telling her that Lilith was okay. You can't always judge a book by its cover right? "Hello Lilith." Gwen said casually. Then the question. How was Gwen suppose to know? She just arrived at camp not that long ago. For all Gwen knew Chiron could be off partying with his cousins. The again, that was so out of character for the mentor of demigods. It was almost laughable to think of Chiron mingling with the Party Ponies. Gwen wondered if the old centaur had even ever partied hard core before?

Gwen sighed. "Sorry Lilith. I don't know. What do you need him for. Perhaps I can take a message if he is not there." Gwen said with a friendly smile. She wasn't in one of her "Oh, I'm a famous model and you're worthless poop" type of moods right now. Perhaps that would benefit her.

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[Tessa Sinclair]

The girl had heard about the old oracle being stored in the attic, Tessa smiled and laughed at the idea. “That's ridiculous, why would be put a living breathing girl in our attic? It's mostly trophies, and while you're pretty enough to be one I doubt you would stay still as one.” The tone the other girl had used was something called sarcasm, and though Tessa was still not sure of the reason for it she knew it was a sign of aggression. Tessa decided it was best to use a more joyful tone, it was her normal default. It worked more often than not, a simple smile and possibly a little joke normally put people off the sarcasm. It did not always work, but Tessa was still working on the fine details of human interaction. It was a terribly complicated thing.

“Oh you know, just some information on campers conditions. I had to make sure everyone put their files together, haha a real chore chasing some of them down.” Tessa said with a warm smile that show nothing of her stillness of her heart. She felt no annoyance, or happiness in her task. As always she felt nothing. “If you want we can talk after I put this on Chiron's desk, I've got nothing planned for a while.” Tessa was trying to be a little friendly, and a little curious. Curious seemed to be something difficult, and often walked close to being annoying. Tessa did not want to be annoying, it was never physically the best place to be. People sometimes had the tendency to take aggression out on annoying things. Smiling all the time also seemed to annoy people, though Tessa was not entirely sure why, so she avoided using her smile too much.

After Tessa walked out of the Big House she sighed “Sorry it looks like Chiron's not going to be here for a little while, he had a note saying he'd be back tomorrow evening.” she gave an apologetic smile, one she had seen on tv before. People in camp didn't seem to give them very often, but Tessa learned a lot from movies if she couldn't get it from people watching. She was confident in her skills of acting, though Nora was still able to see through her easily. Tessa was glad she didn't find her type very often, and when she did crying became her go to method of getting them to leave her alone. Learning how to cry was one of her most difficult challenges, and it was still hard. She still took quite some times to get her eyes to produce the tears, and then the look on your face was difficult. Tessa hated it, and she was still pretty bad at really faking it.

[Lilith McKinnon]

Lilith needed to talk to Chiron, she didn't want to admit it, but she feared for her life, she lived in a cabin that was full of other campers, campers that weren't her siblings, she had Hecate, Iris, Hypnos, Nemesis children! and she could go on and on about it. some of them were nice to her, but it was before that camper died. Nowadays all of them were harsh and agressive towards her, only because of her godly heritage. She knew about human nature, it was something that she had been reading about since she got to the camp, since her life went to hell back at home. Yet, she didn't know how long she would be able to go on without snapping against any of them.

The blonde girl came from the house and told them that Chiron would come back next day. She breathed deeply and bit her lower lip. She would have to wait a whole day to see him and tell him about the hooligans in her cabin. But would she be able to survive one more day? She swallowed at the thought of it. She was daughter of Thanatos, yet she was scared of it, well not dying, at least she would see her father once. She was scared of the way of her death, how would the campers or the killer would do it?! She looked at Gwen when she offered her to be a messenger, she breathed deeply and forced herself to smile.

"I'll be fine Gwen, but thank you. I'll wait until tomorrow to tell him." Her voice was as always, not flat but not too high pitched, she didn't know if she could deceive an Oracle, she only hoped she could. Gwen wasn't a demigod, she was there only because the Oracle spirit accepted her. so why should she bother her with her problems? that wasn't fair! Some campers didn't like Gwen at all, because she was much different from them, because they thought she was the same or worse than an Aphrodite girl, but the few Lilith had talked to her, she had seen that there were more of her that the eyes could see.

Then she looked at Tessa and smiled at her too, she remembered from the forest. But she was awful with names, at least the ones she had only spoke to once. "you are... Apollos girl, right?" smiles in a friendly way at the blonde one.