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[ There’s a girl lying out by the ocean side beach, long black hair all tied up and off her neck and pale skin looking a little too red as she fans herself the book in hand. Her camp shirt has sleeves rolled up to her shoulders and bottom tied off just over the lower half of her rip cage, looking more like a bikini top than a shirt alongside the short shorts. ]

I would kill for a strawberry banana smoothie right now.

[ She glances over to the rainbow through large black sunglasses. ]

It should be illegal to be this hot and humid. Nice as the lake and ocean is for the scenic purposes, could we just... not? Whose mother or father do we speak to about climate and natural regional formations? [ Oh wait. That’s probably Gaea. W e l p. Moving on. ]

There’s strawberries aplenty, more than we could stuff the Big House or one of the chatty Aphrodite daughters’ mouth with. What I need from you, camp, is the bananas. My kingdom for a banana. [ Spoken in a dry kind of mellow drama as she lolls her head back. ]

And if I get a single comment referencing extremities best kept in your pants, you’ll be getting said pants set on fire. [ By banana she means banana. She knows half of you are dumb teenage boys who like to think they’re terribly clever on occasion.

She’s about to end the message when she remembers something, lowering her sunglasses to peer over them critically, angry librarian style, and somehow Isabelle has mastered Disapproving Mom Voice. ]

And if you see Stiles Stilinski, send him back to the cabin. He left wet towels on the floor, and he is going to clean them up, before they get dumped on his bed and he gets to sleep on a cold, wet mattress tonight.

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[Thoughtfully:]

We'd need a greenhouse to grow a proper banana tree here.

[ Demeter counselor, oh goodie ]

And what would we need to bribe the Demeter cabin to have that set up?

Talk Chiron into letting us do it? I dislike greenhouses, however, if they're not really needed.

Waiting for a banana tree to grow for a proper smoothie doesn't exactly sound worth the effort. I don't think I have that level of patience.

{ A quirked eyebrow. ] No? I figured that'd be right up your alley.

You'd have to wait, greenhouse or otherwise. Greenhouses are useful and everything, but I just don't like the taste of the food grown in them. It doesn't taste the same to me.

Right, I'm wondering if it's worth the time with or withou greenhouse. Given that it needs a greenhouse, I'd have to factor in getting it built. [ a forlorn sigh. all she wants is a smoothie why is this so difficult. ]

How does it taste different? More artificial?

It might just be me, being a son of Demeter, but I can tell what's been grown in a greenhouse and what hasn't.

Fine, you've caught me. Your banana's right here, sister.

[And from his back, he pulls a 'banana' - though it's just a trick of the light. It's actually a strawberry.]

See? I didn't even make any innuendos that time. You should be proud of me.

And almost without needing special praise for it. [ There's an eyeroll, but the slightest quirk of a half smile. More an 'oh you' than anything else. ]

Gold star, Mr. Novak. Are you going to be nice now and run it over for me?

[ gods damn illusions 8( ]

Right?! Whole new year, whole new me.

[He's glad at least Isabelle's shown some semblance of liking him.]

Maybe. What do I get in return?

[Sassing the daughters of Aphrodite gets an eyebrow-raise from one of her sons. Though he kind of looks like a daughter. Whatever. It dissolves into a smile soon enough.]

And how are we supposed to get bananas if you can't? You're burning, by the way.

[ Whoops. She's not that concerned about it. Izzy is generally not that concerned about much. ]

I haven't searched every inch of camp or asked everyone in camp if they know where to get one. Thus this is me doing that.

You could try getting some at dinner and hoarding them? If that would work.

[Well, he warned her. Not his fault if she gets a wicked sunburn.]

If we have some tonight. They don't exactly consult me on the menu.

[ and she turns her head to glance at a shoulder turning pink, pretty obvious on that skin tbh. Das rude, Alcuin. ]

I don't think I'm meant to be in sunlight.

Maybe they'll be kind.

[Hey, he didn't mean it to be rude. :<]

I know what that's like. I have an extra bottle of sunscreen if you'd like to stop by and gt it.

I wouldn't hold you breath for it. Camp doesn't really know 'kind' often. Unless lava is just Mr. D's form of tough love.

[ fjdkls can't aphrodite kids do that? 8|a maybe not. ugh she's going to get curse with gross make up.

A small smile at that. ] Thank you. I'd owe you one. If I find that banana, I'll be by with an extra smoothie for you.

I wouldn't count it out. Mr. D isn't that bad. [Or Alcuin is just new to camp and has the best opinion of everyone possible. And some of his mom's kids might be able to, but Alcuin wouldn't even if he could.] That would be amazing. My cabin is full of wilting maidens. [Which he means in all fondness, honestly.]

We can at least say he's better for our health than our parents are. [ Considering he saved them fro being torn apart by monsters basically. ] He's more a father than a lot of us have had.

[ Something bitter in that. But moving on. There's a soft laugh. ] Poor dear hearts. The water's probably fairly nice if you want to go on a camp swimming trip.

Thanks mom. [ Stiles grins wryly at her Iris message, dangling one of the wet towels and idly looking over his shoulder to her bed. ] Nice to see you too, maybe?

[ Eyebrows raised because wow son you best not. She will snatch yo weave gurl. ] Nicer to see that the towels are off the floor, but if they so much as touch anything that's mine, it will be a much less nice.

Oh. I'll tell him. I'm not very good at the cabin leader thing, I don't think. [ Occupied with a million other things, as always. Such is the life of the sleepless Hecate counselor. ]

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jdkslfa durr i totally forgot to respond to the burning part fdjska sorry /)_(\

it happens /).(\

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