Two Ghosts | IRIS MESSAGE

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[It takes a minute for Norman to even make the IM. He's never been good at talking to people, and he's usually fine to just keep to himself, but.]

[Well. He has something important to say and, given everything he's learned this week, it wouldn't be right to leave people in the dark about what happened in the forest. People deserved to know.]

[He's nervous for another reason, though. He's worried that people will actually treat him differently because of who his Godly parent is, and he had actually begun to feel like he was happy here. You know, around a bunch of other kids with weird powers that couldn't fit in anywhere else.]

[Well. Better get it over with, Babcock.]

[The IM begins with one awkward looking eleven-year-old. He's sitting on a bunk in the Hades cabin, rather than Hermes. He's quiet at first, but then he takes a deep breath and nods.]

Um. If ...I can get everyone's attention for a minute. I've got something important to tell you all.

...Last month a lot of people saw ghosts out in the woods. I just wanted to let everyone know that me and another camper named Nico found out what was behind all the sudden hauntings. It was a Goddess named Melinoe, Goddess of ghosts and the restless dead. She brought out the ghosts of a lot of campers' loved ones to ...do a bunch of things that wasn't very nice. So ...I'm really sorry.

[Right he just kind of apologized for her. Great. Ugh.]

She's um. She's also my mom, I guess.

iris message

[unstinting]

[Hey everyone, your friendly neighbourhood Cabin Ten counselor here, dressed in black as he usually is these days. It makes him look kind of like a ghost, but he's not doing it for aesthetic reasons.

He has his hands folded in his lap and his face is somber.]

Time is passing. We know that the Red Room is killing demigods who are outside the protections of Camp Half-Blood, but we don't know how many or how fast.

What are we doing to plan for an attack on them? We can't sit on the defensive and only respond when prodded. We should be finding them and finding some way to hit them. Nobody should be dying while we sit here and-

[He wants to say 'prepare for Christmas', but he doesn't want to hurt anyone's feelings so he stops himself.]

While we sit here and enjoy the safety of our boundaries. It isn't right.