Half-Blood Hill

[Hail the conquering hero! Jehan and Nico are back from Venice and as soon as Nico is asleep from the shadow travel, Jehan makes an IM. He's all blushy and happy and smiling]

I've presents for mostly everyone from Venice! And before anyone asks--all questions regarding what happened in Venice should go to me and not my boyfriend.

[He just grins]

Anyone who bothers him will be subjected to poison ivy. You have been warned.

[This comes on Thursday morning. Jehan starts the IM and is, for once, very serious]

I don't really feel this is necessary of me but...I also feel that there are some campers here who will feel comforted if I do this.

[Nico.]

So I am reminding the camp at large that bullying or hating someone because of who or what they are is not allowed within camp boundaries. This includes bringing up painful parts of someone's history with the intent to hurt them.

[Margot. Eponine.]

You don't have to like everyone, but this is supposed to be a safe place! Let's try to keep it that way, okay? We don't want to run someone off only for them to end up dead.

[Jehan is outside today, tending to some vines with gloves. When the IM starts, he smiles a bit]

I thought now might be a good time to bring up something I should have brought up a while back. For those who don't know me, I'm Jean, the Demeter counselor, though I prefer Jehan. I also grow poisons.

[He points to some]

Desert rose, sap's good for coating arrows and is really hard to grow in this climate. Belladona, also called deadly nightshade. Daphne, the berries are poisonous. Larkspur, the seeds will kill you. Oleander, one of my favorites. And this? This is wolfsbane.

[He holds up a plant]

This is incredibly poisonous. Just touching it with your bare hands will lead to numbness and possible heart problems. It is also very effective against wolves.

[And this is why he thought today would be a good day to talk about this]

All of my plants are labeled in French and Greek if they're deadly, so please don't touch them. However, if you want any of these to use on weapons to be used against monsters only, please talk to me. If I find that someone's been using them on campers, however...well, poison ivy usually clears up in a few days. Or not.

[He just smiles]

If people are interested, I'd like to do a sort of seminar on the poisons? So we all know how to treat various kinds and how to recognize some of these in the wild.

[The IM opens on a Jehan out by the bonfire]

Ah, with everything that's happening to everyone, I thought it might be nice to make something comforting? So I've made a lot of tea and some baked apples, if anyone wants some. I'll be out here or on my cabin's porch.

[Dany]

[Jehan looks so distraught right now it isn't funny. He's somewhere near the ocean, obviously trying to hide from everyone]

I have your dragons. And, um. Everything else. I think they're looking for you? But I'm not sure.

[Enjolras, in French]

[He's still distraught when he sends an IM to Enjolras]

Enjolras, please fix this. Send an IM to Hera or something and figure out how to fix this. I know Hera totally misunderstood the protest but that's Hera and we all know that's just how she is but this isn't fair, Enjolras. I want my powers back and Maman back.