Next to the Athena cabin

Annie walked out of the cabin wearing her Camp Half t-shirt and shorts , carrying her sword Adamas to polish it sitting in the Sun, she loved the weather, bright and warm . Just outside the cabin in the courtyard was Victoria with a telescope . Angelina went stood near her and said in a soft voice "Hi Victoria" After a year at the camp she could talk to her half - siblings comfortably at least. Or else talking felt like some alien activity to Annie.

"Yeah! Nice weather to do all the pending work , like polishing your Sword" Annie then showing Victoria the celestial bronze blade of Adamas . Her sword was nothing special , actually the blade was even a little blunt compared to the other swords , but when she was choosing her weapons it was the only one that felt right in her hands. Angelina after a year at camp knew at least this much that every demigod had a weapon which felt like it was made for them , and felt like the weapon understood each and every stroke and movement of the holder . At least Annie felt that way.

Looking at the telescope Angelina asked "what are you doing anyway?"

Angelina had heard before of recording sunspots , but never gave a thought to it . But now when she was watching Victoria doing it , recording sunspots seemed interesting enough . "How do you do it ?" she asked.

Angelina hated this thing about herself , sometimes she could get too curious and then irritates people by asking a hundred questions.

This reminded her of Jake , her brother , sometimes when her father had some work he would say Jake to tutor Angelina , Annie like a real irritating little sister would flood Jake with questions (even the one she knew the answers of ) and he would once clap his hand on his head and then answer her. The next time whenever her father asks Jake to tutor her it would take an hour to make him agree to it .

Then considering that even Victoria was her sister only she stood there waiting for an answer.

OOC : I do that with my elder brother in real too, like asking him thousands of questions, you see he is the one who helps me to prepare for my exams ;) :)

Angelina silently standing there was looking at the circle of light on the paper as Victoria explained . There were little spots in it. those spots seemed to say Look even sun has its own flaws .

When Victoria had finished Angelina just watched Victoria , for a moment . She liked Victoria , both of them quite alike an then asked " Who taught you this?"

Angelina stood there listening to Victoria . Looking at Victoria even she wanted to tie her hair up , she had let them loose as they were wet , but now dried in the wind they flew all over face and irritated Angelina . But she stood there .

She wanted to know more about Victoria , but it would be unfair if Angelina didn't tell anything about herself so she said -

" Well , no i haven't , I don't show that much interest in Astronomy . You see as I was taught most of the things by my father and my brother Jake .I never went to school . So I have only learned the things they wanted to teach me and the things I wanted to learn from them " She then looked at Victoria once more and asked " Who is in your family ? Like outside the camp"

Angelina replied " Okay looks like i really haven't missed anything that I wanted, by not going to school "

Of the part that Victoria's dad was a researcher in physics . Angelina loved physics , it could explain and make things like just using a scissor interesting . She looked around there were people all around , this place was so nice and pleasant no one would believe that it was made for teaching the demigods to fight of deadly monsters .

She then looked at Victoria again "How did you got to the camp Victoria ? "

Angelina listened and wondered , that Angelina's arrival was nothing compared to of Victoria's . She had always had a such a normal life except for those incidents that happened several year's ago .

She then replied to Victoria " Nothing that fancy , once Jake my elder brother brought his friend to home , that friend turned out to be a satyr . He then brought me here without any thing monstrous on the way . Though it was difficult for him too, to find me I never went to school after 1st grade you see. Then when Jake told him about the accident in 1st grade with me , he had a doubt and came with Jake to see me . And then " she paused "well you know after that "

Angelina couldn't think about why Victoria would like such a simple life . Not that Angelina didn't like her own life , she felt it was the best she could get . But still Victoria always seemed to Angelina as an adventure loving person , but Victoria seemed to be different now .

Angelina then asked "Why ? what was your childhood like ?"

Angelina had experienced the curse too , but not that troubling. Then unexpectedly she was smiling because she remembered something too funny .

Smiling she said "Yeah the curse of course , actually once when I was 5 years old , I saw a spider in the backyard while I was playing with my elder brother Jake he was eight at that time . So well I had this hard tennis ball in my hand , I don't remember how it came there . I shrieked on seeing that thing and threw the ball away and the ball went and hit Jake hard on his knees , he couldn't walk for days . Since then even Jake hated spiders , he used to run all around the house to kill the spider - if he saw one - with his baseball bat, I hardly saw a spider in the house after that "

Angelina took off from laughing , and remembered those nights . " Yeah many times , even if they were not there , I always thought they were there " and then asked " How did they troubled you ?"

OOC : Jake and Angie look nothing alike :D , Jake was adopted by her father Joe . I have described him in the request I sent at your Avatar shop

Angelina thought about it - Wow , having spider web on mouth , can't literally be normal for anyone -

She then said " Yeah , anyway a lot of talk about creepy spiders , lets talk something new . What are you going to do after recording these sunspots ?"

Angelina gave a little laugh and said " Well what I meant was that , what would you do, after lets say when the sun sets , and there will be no sun to record sunspots until tomorrow morning. "

Then after a pause she says "Would you mind if I ask a personal question ? "

Victoria smiled and said:

"After the sun set? Well, I continue watching the sky. I got a special permission of Chiron to stay at night here and watch the stars. This month, I'm watching particularly the ecliptic," she explained. "It's, you know, the plane of the earthly orbit. The imaginary line defined by the orbit (well, apparent orbit) of the sun in one year. On the celestial sphere."

She smiled again.

"Or, I observe Saturn. This month, this planet can be seen better. I'm lucky to have a telescope that can zoom up to 30 times and more, so I can take pictures of its rings. You know, they are fabulous. Jupiter is still visible, but it disappears quickly. Bad, last month I could watch it very precisely."

OOC: I'm being a bit anachronistic here, because it's this month that the ecliptic is to be seen and last month that Jupiter and Saturn were very interesting to watch. But since I don't know next year's sky... XD

BIC: Victoria looked up and tilted her head sideways.

"Er... yes, of course. Ask."