FC: Dylan O'brien
Speech Color: #B50000 || Thought Color: #E60000
Rowan was busy with the garden. He always was. He made sure that everything in the garden would grow and blossom, and they had different plants for different seasons. Weeds needed to be plucked and some items required lattices, while others needed to be trimmed. It was an entire process and he loved every moment of it. His sister usually helped him out in the mornings before wandering over to the training grounds and sword fighting for a bit. It was past lunch time though, so he worked alone. Gladly he was almost done for the day and would be able to run around the track a few times before dinner. The twins had a rather predictable schedule, which he loved. It was nice to have something so normal. They had never been so predictable and it was alright with him. He loved knowing exactly where his sister was all the time, and he enjoyed doing the same thing every day. It made him feel more human.
He trimmed up the last of the leaves from the bushes in the back of the Hades cabin and stood to brush himself off. Not that it mattered much, his hands still had dirt and his jeans were just permanently stained with grass. It was more out of habit. He spotted a flower though, out of the corner of his eye that wasn't quite the same as the rest of the other Summer flowers. He leaned down and examined it. "I'm fairly certain I didn't plant anything like you and I definitely would have remembered seeing something like you yesterday," He muttered to the flower. He gently moved the flower to get a better look at its petals finding the middles to be a very vibrant pink while the ends were red. He was curious where such a flower had come from, and what exactly it was. He wasn't sure he had ever run into such a thing before. He did what he always did when he came across a new flower and plucked it out of the ground.
Being done with his work for the day, he went into the cabin and changed into his running gear and brought the flower with him. He hoped to run into one of the campers from the Demeter cabin who might have more of an idea of what the flower might be, but unfortunately, he had not. He just found his sister sitting in the shade of a tree just outside of the arena. Rowan had never seen her do such a thing and walked over to her to see what could possibly be wrong. "What's up, Ivy? I thought you'd still be in the arena, fighting."
FC: Merit Leighton
Speech Color: #B82BC4 || Thought Color: #BF00BF
Ivy wasn't having a particularly good day. She had been smart enough to wear lighter clothes with a lighter color due to the summer heat, but she was still warm and just felt bad. She had managed to cut herself while helping out with the gardening, then went to go train at the arena only to lose every practice battle, and then nearly had a win only to have to stop to eat lunch. She decided that trying to do anything more with a sword would make her angry, so she decided to just sit down in the shade. Something she hadn't done in years, but it had felt like a time to do it. Nothing else was going her way and cooling down seemed like the best thing she could do. She had found that the quiet was actually kind of nice and just thinking about things that were going on around her was a nice change of pace.
Her mind had wandered to the thought of their new cabin mate, who had recently been claimed. It was weird. Rowan and her had been the last to be claimed since the war had started and the gods went into their sleep. Somehow, everyone in camp half-blood had stayed safe, and time was still going on without the gods. Still, then came along Alistaire, who had somehow managed to be claimed by Hades. It was strange and Ivy wasn't a fan of however that came about. That either meant that Hades had awoken, or only awoke long enough to claim the child, or maybe Hades hadn't woken up at all and somehow Alistaire was claimed by a sleeping god. It just didn't sit well with her, but she bottled up those feelings, knowing it was not her place to talk. Besides, the last thing she wanted to do was anger Hades, she knew quite well that he was probably already upset with her for just existing.
Ivy snapped out of her thoughts when she found her brother in front of her questioning what she could possibly be doing outside of the arena. "Oh, I wasn't having any luck with the sword fighting practice, so I gave up," Ivy shrugged in response to her brother's questioning. "What's that flower in your hand?"
Rowan looked at his hand as if he had forgotten even picking the thing up and smiled, "Oh, this little guy just happened to grow out of nowhere in our garden. Do you-" Rowan was about to offer the flower to Ivy when the conversation was cut short by the presence of another camper. One of Ivy's friends from the Demeter cabin.
"Did you guys hear? Your little cabin friend got a quest," The camper sat down beside Ivy, handing her a bottle of water. "I heard that he got it because he managed to wake Hades up to claim him. So, he gets to go out and find out how to wake up the other gods."
"Wow, that must be a lot of pressure on one person," Ivy sighed as she took a sip from the bottle of water and leaned against the tree.
"We...should see if he wants our help," Rowan muttered, "He shouldn't take on that quest alone. He could get really hurt."
Ivy stared at her brother. The two of them had come to the conclusion that they should just always stay in camp half-blood, where things were safe. That way their parents would never find them again and they at least had a chance that the gods would just leave them alone. Hades was an intimidating force and one they were sure did not like them. Especially since they were evidence that his wife, Persephone, had cheated on him. That was something that he had never even heard of. Persephone was supposed to be faithful and was never to cheat on Hades, yet she did and had chosen Rowan and Ivy's father to do that with. The two were sure that he must not care for the two. That's how their human parents thought at the very least. Either way, leaving the camp would be dangerous and something that neither of them would want to do.
"You don't have to offer your help if you don't want to," Rowan spoke after a long silence.
"No! No, of course I'll offer to help out. I wouldn't want you to go on anything dangerous without me," Ivy stood. "I guess we could check to see if he's packing up in the cabin."
So the two went off back to their cabin to see if Alistaire might be inside packing his things for the quest.