The Deer Dro -- Er, Zeus's Fist

I look at her standing there with her hands on her hips. She looked like she was towering over me, looking superior. I felt a bit intimidated by it really. I didn't want to annoy her, I didn't know what she was capable of. She looked a bit annoyed or confused by my stutter. I hated it, it was really bad with new people. I just needed someone here I knew! That would solve it all.

I then here her talk to someone else. I wondered who else was here, and then a snake came slithering forward. I didn't mind snakes, they weren't so bad. Well, some were, but not all. Since this one was at camp it was probably a nasty one, but as long as I didn't aggravate it, it shouldn't harm me. Still, it looked as if the snake was actually replying to her and she could understand. Just like I could with horses....

"W... well... I'm s... sorry that I... I'm here, if... if you... want... wanted to be... a... alone." The stutter was getting better. It wasn't as bad as earlier. I guess my confidence was slowly building. I then took the coin out of my pocket to show it to her. "It's... it's... nothing r.... really." I tell her, before flipping the coin and having a short-sword like back in my hand. I showed it to her, but then rubbed the hilt and it collapsed back onto itself and returned back to the shape of a coin, which I continued to hold in my hand.

I look at the girl really confused. What she was saying, I had no clue. I sounded smart and philosophical, but I literally had no clue as to what was going on. I wondered what she could be talking about though. I managed to gather that it must have had something to do with books, and she was talking to Ra, a god, but it was weird, calling out loud to a God about Vampires and Werewolves, presumably from a book... Strange...

Then there was the snake... I wasn't a large fan of snakes, I disliked them. Sometimes they were cool and could be strange, but fantastic, pets, but wild snakes... I disliked a lot. They seemed to have a strange relationship though, her and the snake; Terron. They seemed to get on, but also at the same time, liked to argue. Actually, I wasn't sure if this girl liked Terron at all. Still, I decided it would probably be a good idea to actually introduce myself, rather than be reffered to as girl.

"I'm Ciara." I said to. I was surprised for a moment, I didn't stutter at all. I was kind of amused by the stares Terron and the other girl were giving each other, so I guess being amused was making me feel more relaxed, and I was able to speak more comfortably. That, and I had only said two words, so there wasn't much need for a stutter, a longer sentence would still probably have some in there. I also smiled at her longer, strange thing as to me possibly aggravating her, which wasn't true at all. "I was out h..here j...just wandering around. T...then I decided j...just to sit down and relax." So evidently the stutter was still there, but it definitely was not as bad, "Whats y...your name by the... the way? And I... I'm s...sure he isn't all b... bad."

I started to smile a bit again, and laughed a little bit. It was really quite funny to watch the two of them arguing. I couldn't actually hear what Terron was saying, but I could hear what Benji, as I had know discovered was her name, was saying to him. I had gathered though that Terron was complaining about Benji not hunting for her. We were out in the forest though, it shouldn't have been too hard for him to find some form of food. Even some berries or something. Did snakes eat berries? I had never studied snakes... I knew very little about them, I knew they ate rats and stuff, and if I didn't, I would have been able to gather it from these conversations, but I wasn't too sure if they would eat fruit or things... I wasn't going to ask though, I didn't want to appear to be a fool in front of Benji. My stutter was embarrassing enough, I didn't need to ridicule myself further by asking what could be an obvious question.

I also thought about if I had anything nicknames... No-one had ever actually called me anything besides Ciara. Could Ciara actually be shortened to anything? Would I like the nickname? I couldn't tell. Still, maybe at some point in the future someone might give me one, then I would be able to decide what I prefer. "I have no nicknames either." I told, without a single stutter. I was really impressing myself. The stutter was going quickly. I guess it really was the amusement between Benji and Terron, they had made me relax. I begun to feel a little nervous again though when she said, "expecting to be alone...", was that an indication for me to leave? Should I go? Should I stay? "I can, uh, leave if you want me to? If you want to go back to being alone? I can just go back to wandering too." I didn't really want to go, these two made me smile, but if it's what she wanted, I would respect that. I wasn't actually sure as to where I would go if she wanted me to go, I couldn't actually remember in which direction I had actually come from, I had been wandering aimlessly, still, I was sure I would make my way back to camp eventually. Or get in a fight...

ooc: sorry! I would have posted earlier, but my hotmail decided not to notify me... for some strange reason... so I never checked until now. Sorry about that...

I smiled when she was saying about she didn't mind me staying. It made me feel welcome, wanted even. It was a pleasant feeling. I had been enjoying the company of Benji up to that point, it had been amusing to watch her and Terron, it was quite amusing. Though to begin with, I still had to piece together what Terron was saying to Benji, I could only hear what she was saying. It was quite difficult to actually work out what was being said. I had never really thought about how other people would see a conversation like this before, whilst talking to horses, it had never occurred to me. Benji didn't even know I could talk to horses! I didn't need to bring it up yet though, if she asked I'd tell her, but I wasn't sure how she'd take it, so I kept it to myself. Although there was no reason for her to be annoyed by it, I still wasn't sure. Sometimes I was strange like that...

Still, then Terron actually spoke to me too. I was a bit surprised, but not too much. Being spoken too telepathically wasn't new to me. So the only indication of my surprise was a raise of my eyebrows. I wondered if Benji had noticed my lack of surprise. But, at that moment, I just peered up into the sky for a moment, as to show I was thinking about it, and then I scrunched my face when I realised I didn't know. "Some might, I guess. But not all do." Is all I told him, it wasn't the most helpful answer, but it was all I had. I guess that would have to do.

I heard the crisp packet rustling again, and I moved over, grabbed it and pulled it out from between the rocks, then I scrunched it up and put it in my pocket. I looked back over to Benji and said to her, "That was just really getting on my nerves..."

I laugh at the two of them again. They were bickering again, and Terron was complaining, but I'd gathered that that was what he usually did. At the same time though, it suggested that these two were quite close, though it could also be thought that Benji wanted some more space, still I'd never had a relationship with that. I'd always been the loner sort of person. Even at home I hadn't been very close to anyone. Well, I guess I did have the horses... I had become really close to some of them, so maybe I had had a relationship like these two, but I had never complained about it, so evidently my horses were different to Terron.

"I've never tried goat, but I like beef. Beef is really good." I told Terron, but then I looked back over to Benji, "Yeah I guess I...I... am glad the satyrs didn't find that first, they would probably have killed me. Sometimes they can be soo picky..." I said sighing at the last part, it was true. I had seen them complain many times over little things like that, they were really touchy on subjects involving nature...

And then Benji's statement had made me think, I'd never been to Canada, so I had no idea what it was like, but I guess I did think of a moose being everywhere, and them loving syrup and stuff, but then I realised that that was wrong, and some people had awful stereotypes of Americans... "Where are you from, by the way?" I asked Benji, "I'm from Virginia."

I begun to laugh again at Terron. For a snake, he was incredibly funny. It was a completely sarcastic sense of humor, but it made me laugh nonetheless. I couldn't believe she still stayed with him, I was really getting the impression that she hated him at times and would rather get rid of him. It was also evident he liked to complain, and I could see that that was one of the reasons Benji disliked him. I guess if I had to put up with it all the time, I'd probably dislike him too, but this was my first encounter with him, so fortunately I liked him for now.
"Virginia's a ni...nice p...place, though it can be pretty dull at times. The town I lived near was like that, then again, a lot of the t...towns are. I'd quite like to v...visit Florida at some point, I've never really traveled, I'd like to visit all the states.
I then thought about the animals and I realised Benji raised a good question. It was true, there were some strange, peculiar animals at camp. How people could keep them as pets, I didn't know. "I agree with you, it does s...seem pretty stu...stupid. Those animals shouldn't be kept as pets, they should be allowed back into the wild. I don't have anything of the sort, the only animals I really spend time around are horses, but I love horses and love riding them. Heck, I enjoy talking to them too..." I then realised I had let slip my power. I thought about it though and realised I shouldn't be ashamed of it, I could talk to horses! It was a pretty cool power, or at least it was in my mind.

I smiled and started to laugh at what she was saying, especially when she directed it at Terron. I liked it how he was agreeing with her, before she turned it on him and put him down. But Benji was right. Many of the exotic animals in camp were too tame. Even hellhounds?! It was far too strange, and wasn't right.
Terron almost made me feel a little ashamed by what he said. I could hear him, and it just made me feel pretty bad about myself. He did admit to joking, but I couldn't shake the feeling that maybe he wasn't. What if people thought it was like that and thought I was lame for doing so? I didn't want that. "I... I talk to them l... like you do with Terron. I can understand w... what they're s... saying and they un... understand me." I explained to them both.
I nodded to Benji also, knowing what she meant with the wink. "Sure... sure, snake's are s... sooo mis...misunderstood. They're not t... too bad." I said, trying to hold back a smile, but failing at it. I couldn't help but smile it. At least I managed to hold back laughing. Though I was sure Benji could see I wanted to laugh at the situation.
"Who's your God-Parent, b...by the way?" I asked her. I just realised throughout our whole conversation neither of us had asked that question. A question which usually started most conversations here at camp. It was nice to get to know someone before knowing that, and they knowing whether they were a child of an important God or not, but I wanted to know actually.

Her Dad was Kuk? An Egyptian God? I knew there were some of those people at camp, but never before had I met one. Benji was the first child of an Egyptian God I had ever met. It sounded really cool actually. I didn't really know anything about Egyptian Mythology though... It was a weak subject for me.

I smiled at her and Terron again. They still continued to amuse me, somehow the joke never got worn out. Admittedly it wasn't really the same joke, they kept arguing about something different, yet still it seemed to amuse me.

I could still hear Terron though, and he was right. A lot of the kids here did have the exotic pets, and it probably would be easier if they all had simpler pets. I didn't have a pet, and I found it easier that way. The horses weren't my pets, they were friends. I'd visit them and talk to them and ride around on them, but they were not my pets.

I nodded to her and said, "I guess I do hang around there a lot. My Dad's Pollux, who h... has something to d... do with Horsemanship. And sailors, though I've never been on a b... boat." I confess, "I do enjoy talking to them though, I have conversations with them, like you and Terron, though not all of them like to complain." I start to smile, and giggle a little at that, "But I'll admit, some do. I can also ride a horse well, I will admit." I then decide to ask Benji, "So if I hang around the stables, do you have any hobbies?"


I wait for a moment, but then glance at my wrist to the watch I was wearing. I curse myself slightly, and look back up to Benji, "I'm sorry, I'm late. I didn't realise I had been here so long! I need to go! It was great to meet you, come find me later back in camp!" I tell her, before darting off.

Benji raised her hand in farewell, watching Ciara run off back towards camp -- well, now she had nothing to do except bicker with Terron. That was nice. Leaning over, she picked up Terron and began walking back to camp along a clear path through the forest, whistling softly to herself. Maybe a nice, relaxing time hanging out with Peleus would cure her of her boredom, if Terron didn't butt in and use some universal reptile language to annoy the hell out of him.

Benji did not want to be burnt to a crisp today.

ooc: Exit posts suck.