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[Ada Morgenstern]

"Scarlet and crimson – flaming, the sun
Dragonfly Driven, on delicate wings
Rising to hunt
Seeking its prey"

-Michael Clucas

It must have been about twelve o'clock. Noon. That time which most would be sitting down in the dining pavilion, with all of their friends, being as sociable as ever as they scoff through chocolate and strawberries. Though hopefully not at the same time. Unless people like such combinations. Nevertheless, during the lunch rush hour, Ada preferred quieter arrangements. At least until everything cooled down. She cared not for social conventions such as lunch time chatter. So here she was, bow in hand, full drawn, seeking a little bit of that adventure she experienced whilst on the hunt. Monsters were known to venture through the forest, and though they were most common to appear at night, they did sometimes appear during the day, and that was exactly what made the hunt a little more thrilling. Boring after too long, perhaps, but Ada was used to the wait. She'd been hunting for a hundred years, she was most certainly used to the necessary waiting in hunting.

Today, the amount of time it had taken to get impatient with the search only fastened. Ada had arrived at Zeus' fist. From camp to here, she had found nothing. It was rather disappointing. Withdrawing her bow, Ada started the climb to the top of the rock formation and sat herself down at the top of it, legs dangling over the edge. It was rather relaxing being here, to be honest. Free from the bores of camp. The world in which people act as though you care about the little things that don't concern or benefit you. It's stupid to believe anyone could really give a flying rat's behind about who was in a relationship with who and so on. Out here, you're free from that. That in itself is a delightful thought. Just Ada and nature, the way it was intended. Though, if it were to be so, Ada would have preferred to have Artemis at her side - Artemis was an amiable character, especially with the endless promise of immortality. That relationship benefited Ada better than anything ever could. Provided she didn't die in battle somehow, Ada was bound to a chaste eternity. The idea of chastity, too, delighted her. Ada cared not for sexual pursuits or pleasure. It was a fool's game.

With her bow down beside her, with her hand resting on it ready for a quick draw, Ada lay herself back on the stone. Of course, her legs remained in their position, dangling over the edge of the rock, but Ada had made herself a little more comfortable. Just a little more relaxed. Her gaze focused on the clouds in the sky, the peaceful atmosphere that surrounded her. This was so wonderful. Nothing could ruin this.
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Notes: Anyone is welcome to join. I wanted to get a thread started with her, and I'd love to have her experience something social. xD
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[Katerina Tatangelo]

And we Danced, and we Cried and we Laughed...
and had a Really Really Really Good Time.

Katerina walked through the camp, she was in a good mood. Spending all day in the Forges can do that to ya. She loved it in there spending all her time with her siblings and working on cool things to benefit the camp... so cool. It was then that she pulled a small mirror out of her pocket, only having recently finished constructing her newest weapon. Yeah you heard her right.. Weapon! It was an amazing design that sort of came to her in a dream. She designed it after Helen of Troy's dagger, Katoptris which meant looking glass in English. It was named cleverly so because it was a mirror and when she made a certain expression that she pre-programmed it gave her different weapon choices. Katerina decided to name her weapon the same, Katoptris.

Rustling in the woods brought her back to reality. She checked her surroundings...nothing. A birds eye view would be better she thought as she jumped onto the lowest branch of a nearby tree and swung herself higher and higher until she could see the ground for a good mile so she wasn't too far up. Katerina brought out her mirror, opened it up and saw her own reflection give a kiss to her and automatically her petite mirror was changed into a knife like Helen's. She sighed in content "Best weapon ever!" she whispered as the perpetrator came into plain view, she could see the back of her head and quietly swung down each branch to drop softly onto the ground behind the girl, she was sitting on Zeus' fist. A cleverly named big rock in the middle of the forest at camp.

Ready to pounce, she took a moment to think about her actions. This was a rare occasion, as she never thought before she acted. It was always the other way around. Katerina ended up sitting on the rock, behind the girl. She hadn't seen this girl around camp before and she wasn't to sure who she was. Sinking Katoptris into the side of her high brown hunting  boot, she cleared her throat delicately as she waited for the unknown girl with the long brown hair to turn around and identify herself. As a second thought she took out Katoptris out of her boot and twirled the knife in her hand. She had no clue how this encounter was going to go but she didn't want to be defenseless in a circumstance like this...alone in the woods.


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[Ada Morgenstern]

Ada could hear a slight rustle in the foliage which suddenly brought her back to reality. There was something approaching her. Human or monster? That, she did not yet know. Instead, her hand slowly gripped her bow tighter - making sure to make no sudden movements, so that that which approached her wasn't aware of how prepared Ada actually was. She'd been on the hunt for 100 years, this was something she was used to and something certainly within her capabilities. Of course, when on the hunt, Ada was also surrounded by other hunters with similar capabilities but now everything relied on her and it was incredibly refreshing. The thrill of the chase, as it were. Ada focused on her listening, to see what else she could figure out about the person or the creature. From then she waited patiently to see what would happen. 

The creature, or person perhaps, climbed up onto the space of the rock behind her. When it cleared it's throat Ada knew for certain that it was a person, for she had not known any creature or monster of any sort to have such mannerisms when on the hunt. Either this was a curious camper or a sadistic being who loved to taunt his victims prior to killing them by showing them his face. Though the latter seemed unrealistic, Ada couldn't rule it out. Nothing in this world filled with mythological concepts now proved to be true could likely be "unrealistic". So Ada prepared herself for a sudden movement. In the blink of an eye she grabbed an arrow from the quiver and drew her bow, directing it at the stranger but not shooting. 

How anti-climatic, was all Ada could think. She soon withdrew her bow upon seeing who this stranger really was. It was actually a camper. A demigod, or perhaps even a nymph of some sort. Though the latter knew a little more about who to avoid when it came to the involvement of weapons. It was a girl. A girl who gripped her weapon tightly, perhaps fearing a similar confrontation to that which Ada was imagining. She looked about sixteen or seventeen, though Ada couldn't exactly be sure, and admittedly, she was lucky in looks. Though that was something Ada didn't care to elaborate on. Beauty was a fools concept. Unless, in Ada's case, it meant personal gain. In which case, it was perfect and ever so useful. 

Ada was the type to never care with apologies, and upon the topic of her immediately threatening the girl with her bow she still wouldn't say sorry for such a thing. It was necessary self-defense, at least at the time if not in hindsight. The hunter just placed her bow back by her side and put the arrow back in the quiver. "What brings you out here?" Ada asked, not sounding particularly interested though being the one asking the question. She had to be at least a little polite towards women, in case they ever showed interest towards Artemis' hunt. Thus, she had to further her manners with introductions. Her tone, however, throughout her words, did not change at all. "Ada Morgenstern, hunter of Artemis, daughter of Poseidon. Care to introduce yourself?" There. Now that wasn't rude, was it? Ugh, it was awful having to try so hard with this. But at any point with this, Ada feared upsetting Artemis. Unless she knew this girl had no interest or even hope in joining the hunters, say by either being genuinely uninterested or by not being a maiden, Ada had to remain a little polite. She had to try, and it was horrible.
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Notes: Sorry, I have so much muse and so I had to reply quickly. Here you have Ada trying to be nice. ;p I love your post, by the way. ;
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[Katerina Tatangelo]

And we Danced, and we Cried and we Laughed...
and had a Really Really Really Good Time.

The girl with the long brown hair turned around, bow in hand and ready to strike. Katerina blinked but none the less raised her hunting knife Katoptris. Everyone at camp was a bit on edge lately with the release of the Nosi. It's not as if the campers could fight it off. It just effected you. So many of the campers already were stuck in the infirmary due to the spirits of illness and plague. The tip of the bow was directed right at Katerina heart. It wasn't hard to guess that this girl was one of the huntresses that served the Lady Artemis. It wasn't that long ago that Katerina had thought about joining the Huntresses in the hunt. It was a tempting offer. Her whole family was dead and that offer of a sort of family with the huntresses, and not having to worry about anything ever again. It was a hard bargain to pass up, but she had to. She knew Artemis would never accept her into her ranks. A child of Hephaestus and the blessing of Aphrodite. It would never have gone well in any scenario.

As soon as the girl lowered her bow, Katerina lowered her knife. It was slow at first, she didn't know if this girl was friend or foe. Was there rogue Huntresses?? Katerina doubted it.Artemis always seemed very loyal to her followers just as they were to her. Sticking Katoptris back into the side of her boot she listened as the girl spoke. "I kind of figured" she replied eyeing the bow and sheath of arrows on the girls back. Ada Morgenstern huh? Katerina never heard the name before. "Katerina Tatangelo, Daughter of Hephaestus. It's nice to meet you, Ada." she said showing off a small smile. Ever since she arrived at Camp Half Blood..she hadn't really talked to anyone outside her immediate cabin. The Hephaestus boys were rowdy, annoying, messy and smelled of oil grease 99.9% of the time, but they were family and it was so nice to have that again that she had almost forgot that she didn't really have one anymore...almost. Katerina was a year rounder because of it and so she could never forget it. One of her siblings was a year rounder as well which was nice...it meant that she didn't have to spend meals and training sessions alone.

"What brings you out here?"

It was a simple enough question that Katerina didn't have the answer to. "Ummm no reason. I guess I just wanted to get out of the hustle and bustle of camp. It's been kind of stressful around lately. The Apollo kids especially. I think they are draining themselves out with all the healing they are doing." she said thoughtfully. She knew a few of the Apollo kids, they seemed to be in a drowsy kind of mood lately. It made Katerina worry so much. She was just hoping that this disease wouldn't effect her for a long time to come, or not at all. "What about you? What are doing out here?" she asked smiling.

The camp seemed to have lost half it's campers in the past month or two. Whether to the sickness or to quests gone wrong. Most of the Apollo kids were gone on a quest in the mortal world for Zeus knows what. They still weren't back. Thunder rumbled overhead. It wasn't uncommon around camp. Zeus listened to everything. Mention his name...he hears it. Okay so apparently Zeus didn't know what after all. Thunder rumbled again. "OKAY!" she yelled to the sky. Olivia had warned her that yelling at Zeus could get one barbecued, but it was just easier to yell, right?

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[Ada Morgenstern]

"Pleasure." Ada replied. There was the slightest hint of a smile there too. That's what Artemis would have wanted. Ada had to try for her. Similarly, Katerina's expression bore a small smile. At least she was trying too. Although, Katerina was probably more friendly than she. Ada knew she wasn't the most sociable of people. She was blunt, and more often than not, honest. This, however, meant she was unlikable. Who wanted to be friends with someone who spoke their thoughts? No matter how offensive they may have been. "Hephaestus..."' Ada started, gathering what she knew of the cabin in her mind. "Skilled with weapon forging?" She asked innocently. Perhaps she could get some use out of this. Although, it was pretty easy to get use out of the availability of weapons anyway. Not only could Ada magically summon bows and arrows out of nowhere, but some demigods would do anything for a girl's attention. Though they never knew of her alliances until after they had been used by Ada for her own personal gain. It was fun to do, and the best way to live life. Survival of the fittest and all. Use what is available to you by whatever means necessary.

"Surprisingly, a similar reason to you." Quickly, the hunter thought about it. Camp, especially at certain times of the day, had become a stressful area of people walking slowly and people always being in the way! Ugh, it was awful to even think about. "I always wait until after the lunch hour to get lunch. To avoid the crowds. It's unpleasant to even attempt to get a seat in the mess hall with everyone all over the place." Ada paused. "Plus, there's something tranquil about being in the woods. It reminds me of the hunt, and that was always fun." There, a little advertising. Artemis should be pleased with that. Ada had tried to be as polite as possible by answering Katerina's questions with civil responses and had promoted the hunt a little. "I was just trying to see if there were any monsters loose." Quickly then, a small smirk appeared on her lips. Gods, yes, it was fun to hunt monsters. No matter their strength or size, if you were stealthy enough you were sure to have no trouble. Providing you knew what you were dealing with first. What was the quote? Know your enemies? Something like that. That's the key to victory. 

When the thunder rumbled, causing Katerina to yell at the sky, Ada just looked at the girl with a raised brow. "Something wrong?" She asked, curious now. In Ada's experience, it was still unusual to see someone yelling at the sky. Perhaps Katerina had been running through a train of thoughts in her head and the rumble of the clouds had only triggered a certain reaction. Ada then turned her gaze to the sky and looked up at the clouds. "Gods, I hope it doesn't start raining." It was easier to hunt when the weather was clearer. The thunder had warned forecoming bad weather. Either that or Zeus was reacting to something. Perhaps he even knew Katerina's train of thoughts? Perhaps not. Either way that was not for Ada to know.

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[Katerina Tatangelo]

And we Danced, and we Cried and we Laughed...
and had a Really Really Really Good Time.

Katerina nodded. The girl who introduced herself as Ada had the faintest hint of a smile, out of politeness Katerina was sure. She seemed a little cold to be a daughter of Poseidon, but then again she was just basing her knowledge off the other campers she knew. Sara Winters was always super smiley and friendly. She couldn't judge though. Not everyone was the same as their siblings and not everyone wanted to be. The walls were going up...she knew that people who were a bit colder tended to hurt your feelings. This was her coping method, protective walls to keep herself together. Katerina smiled faintly "Yes and Technokinesis and Pyrokinesis" she said. Katerina pulled out her dagger from her boot, winked at it and it turned back into the compact mirror that she had transformed into a full fledged weapon. "I made this the other week" she said turning the small mirror in her hand "It responds to emotions, you know smiles..winks...stuff like that. Stick your tongue out and it turns into a sword." she added smiling. Katerina was always really proud of her work and working in the forges was always a stress reliever.

"I agree" she said "But then again there aren't many of us at the Hephaestus table in the dinning pavilion.." Katerina glanced her surroundings as Ada talked about how the forest reminded her of the Hunt, she could imagine what it would be like. Nothing around you for miles just you, your weapon and the thing you hunt. It sounded like a pretty good lifestyle. "Do you miss it?" she asked. "I know that the Huntresses of Artemis don't get to hunt as much as they used to when they are at camp." she said. Katerina chuckled "Don't worry there are always monsters loose...you just need to know where to look for them" It was always fun to do training with her brothers in the woods searching for monsters and setting mechanical traps for them. Spending nights in Bunker 9 that was a hidden refuge in the middle of the forest for the children of Hephaestus. It was discovered not to long ago by one of her brothers that she had never met and she probably never would.

Katerina rolled her eyes "Nothing...just Zeus, making remarks about him...whether out loud or in you thoughts makes him ...unpleasant" Thunder rumbled once again. "See?" It wasn't the first time the sky rumbled , campers always got caught up in saying something about Zeus that made him go bananas. One time, Zeus electrocuted one of his own children. Olivia had told her. "I don't think so, it never rains around here." she said smiling. The protective barrier that protected the camp had that power. It was a certain power that Zeus had granted on the large pine tree outside the camp. Once it had been one of his daughters...now it was just a tree. "So what do you mostly hunt...monsters?"

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[Ada Morgenstern]

"Hmm." Ada remained quiet, thinking onto it. Technokinesis and pyrokinesis. The latter, it seemed, was a rare ability. Ada had rarely come across demigods with such an ability. The ability to control fire. Now that was impressive. Would it be useful? Could it be useful to Ada? What could she do with it? How could she use it to her advantage? Whilst she contemplated that, Ada thought to quickly assume her 'be friendly' persona. How was that done? A sweeter tone of voice and a smile. People often fell for it. Especially after she explained her coldness. Suddenly, Ada's tone was much warmer when she spoke, as was her smile. "Pyrokinesis? I've heard that's rare?" The Hunter watched as Katerina pulled a dagger from her boot and demonstrated its use. It wasn't long before her mouth formed a simple 'o'. "Wow... that's fascinating." Now this was genuine. Whoever heard of a weapon that changed shapes, and simply started from a mirror? "How on earth do you even make something like that?"

The woman nodded slowly as she listened intently to the Hephaestus girl. "I can imagine," she said quietly, recalling the image of the Hephaestus table. There weren't actually many of them there. Though it wasn't significantly empty. Soon snapped out of her imagination, Ada looked at Katerina and a small frown took place on her lips. "I do..." Her tone was sad now, and Ada remained genuine in her words. "You feel so free on the hunt, so strong, so able. You feel like you can do anything." She shrugged. "Here, it's different. There's more people to look out for, there's much less to actually hunt, and the group is much smaller in size. Though, yes, the hunting here is still fun. The few monsters that get through and venture through the woods." The Hunter grinned at that. There was a little more advertising done for Artemis. Surely if Ada didn't get all she wanted out of this encounter, she was sure to get at least something. Hopefully. "Have you ever thought about it?" Ada asked, quickly getting the question out of the way. She wasn't afraid to be blunt. Certainly not with this. "Joining the hunt?" She clarified. 

Ada laughed at the comment about Zeus. Now that was a rare sound. When had she last laughed purposely? Usually Ada just didn't care. Sure, she didn't so much right now, except for the fact that she girl she faced was particularly useful in one way or another. "I know what you mean." She added, it wasn't rare for Zeus to react upon a comment or thought of him. He was a generally unpleasant God. Honestly, who disguises themselves as animals to bed a woman? Now that's just weird. Of course, as Katerina had remarked, that mere thought had resulted in a rumble of thunder. Though Ada just smirked. "You can try." She thought. "Artemis won't let you touch me." Upon Katerina's question, Ada nodded slowly. "Monsters, mainly, yes. Though it also includes whatever else we see fit, really. It's quite enjoyable. Artemis, and the other Hunters, of course, make for very good company."

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[Katerina Tatangelo]

And we Danced, and we Cried and we Laughed...
and had a Really Really Really Good Time.

The sun was slowly sinking behind the horizon and the outline of half blood hill was disappearing along with it. Katerina tucked her knee's in closer to her chest as she sat on the stone that was Zeus' fist. She felt tired and the humidity should of made her hair a rat's nest by now. That was the power of Aphrodite for ya. Katerina had been blessed by Aphrodite when she was born. Maybe it was because her dad was Hephaestus, Aphrodite's husband. She wondered if Veronica had the same thing happen to her, she'd have to ask when she got the chance. It was weird not having talked about it earlier. It had been just her and her sister for three years. Snapping back to reality, Ada's tone became much warmer to Katerina now. She smiled, but was soon taken aback by her words. "I wouldn't know..." she said dismissively "I've never really met anyone else with this power but then again it's just my sister Veronica and myself now...my brother hadn't.." she cut herself off. Michael had gone missing a while back and she wasn't to sure when he would be back. He had been there for her when she first got to camp.

Katerina couldn't help but smile when Ada's mouth fell open. "Thank you" she said. The compact mirror sat in her lap now. She was particularly proud of her weapon, it had taken her months to design the format and then another few weeks to actually build the weapon. Katerina didn't own a compact mirror herself so she nicked one from the Aphrodite cabin. It was Sarina's and she had loads of them, Katerina was sure that she wouldn't of minded. "Well it takes time...and lots of it" she said reminiscing on her time spent in Bunker 9. "The schematics alone took two or three months to come up with." she added "and of course lots of arc welding." she said but then immediately felt weird "Sorry...I don't even know if you know what arc welding is?" she said giving an embarrassed hint to her smile.

Katerina nodded politely. "There must be loads of Huntresses at your table?" she inquired. Sometimes she wished that her own table was that full. With the Nosi though and the quests going on and campers just disappearing, most cabins seemed to only have two or three campers. Katerina listened as Ada explained her experiences with the hunt. It sounded like fun and she did remember a time when she thought about packing up and leaving to join Artemis and take the pledge but somehow was held back. "I understand, sometimes camp can be...underwhelming I guess is the word I'm looking for" she said smiling. "One time" Katerina said, thinking about Michael "When I first joined camp five years ago. For two years it was just my brothers and I and sometimes I would just want to get up and go, you know?" she said, a small smile tugging at her mouth. "I guess no matter how much the boys annoyed me, I would miss them if I left. I had a family for once in my life and I guess I just wasn't ready to give it up all of a sudden." she unconsciously confessed.

It took her by surprise, how easily the information came flowing out of her. Ada laughed, bringing Katerina back to reality once again. Katerina smirked as the clouds grew darker and the thunder seemed to shake the stone she sat on. "That's good, I just couldn't bear the thought of killing another person, I think it would destroy me" she said looking sideways towards the empty forest, where birds chirping and monsters growling were the only sounds that emerged from the darkness. At one point those sounds alone had freaked Katerina out, not anymore.

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