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by Since it was fall, the darkness crept quicker over the sky, but it did not bother Jana Kay, of course not. The young daughter of Demeter was presiding the buffet with Karissa, one of her siblings.
Good feelings had been blossoming in the young girl's heart ever since James had asked her to the dance; she had been even more kind and happy than ever, hugging her siblings and friends, giving them spring flowers even though it was fall, and cracking jokes every few seconds. Everything was just working out fine. James had asked her to the dance, and even though he was still dating Autumn, Jana Kay couldn't help but feel elated, like she did when he had kissed her at first. The fourteen-years-old had also gone to Nyssa, from the Hephaestus cabin, to ask her to 'alter' her weapon a bit, and she had got it back a few days ago: now she could use her phone separately from her sword, and she had been phoning and texting her family and friends back in Stirling, Scotland. She had been exchanging texts with her father, mainly snapping pictures of themselves while making funny faces and sending them to each other, with an indication of where they currently were and what they were doing. Like - hey, dad, look what archery training's like here! and an image of her squinting and sticking her tongue out with her bow.
The Halloween spirit had affected the whole Camp - fortunately. Jana was just in love with that feast. The Demeter cabin had led a contest of who would make the biggest pumpkin grow; Jana Kay hadn't won, but she was quite proud of her seventh place. They had carved faces in their pumpkins, and Jana had made a laughing one with only one tooth, before putting a tea light in it and positioning it on one of the tables at the Mess Hall.
The whole cabin had been decorated for Halloween: they had made poison ivy grow on its sides, crawling around the door and windows, pumpkins decorated the roof along with Venus flytraps, and 'hot chocolate' callas dotted the grass around the cabin. They had donated some pumpkins to the other cabins so they too could have fun; the majority had taken them appreciatively, but soon enough, a pumpkin fight had erupted between the Hermes and Ares cabin. It had been pretty difficult to retrieve the pumpkin from the head of Sherman, a son of Ares.
Later that day, the Demeter cabin had overthrown and colonized the kitchen of the Big House. Of course, normally the nymphs brought the food, but today was a special day, and since all the children of Demeter were natural cooks and loved to express that ability, they had decided to make the Halloween buffet.
Buffet which Jana Kay worked at right now.
She was wearing her Hogwarts costume of House Hufflepuff her father had bought her two years ago (which explained why it was only ankle-long instead of foot-long), and even had a 'wand' she had carved out of a piece of wood she had found in the forest the day before.
To her, the buffet looked amazing. There were eyes made of white and brown chocolate, chocolate cupcakes with white and black icing depicting the face of Jack Skellington, entire trays of sweets, muffins decorated with chocolate skeletons, licorice bats and spiders, marshmallow ghosts, 'witch fingers' which were merely rolled sticks of green almond paste set with almond slices for the fingernails and raspberry coulis to mimic blood. There were some 'healthier' treats, like 'apple bites' (quarters of apples shaped like gaping mouths and set with chunks of almonds so they looked like teeth), oranges arranged like jack-o'-lanters, with funny faces, but filled with fruits (cherries, apples, raspberries, raisins, apricot slices, peach chunks and peeled pear squares)... oh, and of course, Jana Kay's own little masterpiece.
She had taken a small seedless watermelon and peeled it carefully to take off the green rind entirely, but not the white one. Then, she had sliced off the base so it would not roll away, drawn lines on it with a toothpick, lines that resembled the folds of a brain, and carved into those lines with a kitchen knife in order to let the red fruit under the white rind show. It had been the best watermelon brain Jana Kay had ever did - and she had made loads of these, at her home in Stirling.
There were some warm snacks too: little round pizzas decorated with molten cheese to mimic mummy straps and chunks of olives for the eyes, for example, or bone-like sticks of bread.
James hadn't picked Jana up at her cabin, since she had been near the dance floor all day, helping to arrange it with the Hephaestus cabin, but they had decided to meet at the buffet at six pm, just when the dance started.
The Dance floor was really awesomely decorated: spiderwebs were hanging around (that would freak the Athena children out), automaton-skeletons popped out from behind pillars or heavy curtains to spook Campers, jack-o'-lanterns and black candles were on every table, coffins served as couches, the chairs were designed to look like an assemblage of bones, and black automaton spiders and bats moved around between the decorative skulls.
While handing around cupcakes and sweets from the buffet and giving Campers glasses of blood-orange juice (passed of as blood, of course) or tangerine juice said to be pumpkin juice, Jana Kay kept an eye on the growing crowd for James.
Good feelings had been blossoming in the young girl's heart ever since James had asked her to the dance; she had been even more kind and happy than ever, hugging her siblings and friends, giving them spring flowers even though it was fall, and cracking jokes every few seconds. Everything was just working out fine. James had asked her to the dance, and even though he was still dating Autumn, Jana Kay couldn't help but feel elated, like she did when he had kissed her at first. The fourteen-years-old had also gone to Nyssa, from the Hephaestus cabin, to ask her to 'alter' her weapon a bit, and she had got it back a few days ago: now she could use her phone separately from her sword, and she had been phoning and texting her family and friends back in Stirling, Scotland. She had been exchanging texts with her father, mainly snapping pictures of themselves while making funny faces and sending them to each other, with an indication of where they currently were and what they were doing. Like - hey, dad, look what archery training's like here! and an image of her squinting and sticking her tongue out with her bow.
The Halloween spirit had affected the whole Camp - fortunately. Jana was just in love with that feast. The Demeter cabin had led a contest of who would make the biggest pumpkin grow; Jana Kay hadn't won, but she was quite proud of her seventh place. They had carved faces in their pumpkins, and Jana had made a laughing one with only one tooth, before putting a tea light in it and positioning it on one of the tables at the Mess Hall.
The whole cabin had been decorated for Halloween: they had made poison ivy grow on its sides, crawling around the door and windows, pumpkins decorated the roof along with Venus flytraps, and 'hot chocolate' callas dotted the grass around the cabin. They had donated some pumpkins to the other cabins so they too could have fun; the majority had taken them appreciatively, but soon enough, a pumpkin fight had erupted between the Hermes and Ares cabin. It had been pretty difficult to retrieve the pumpkin from the head of Sherman, a son of Ares.
Later that day, the Demeter cabin had overthrown and colonized the kitchen of the Big House. Of course, normally the nymphs brought the food, but today was a special day, and since all the children of Demeter were natural cooks and loved to express that ability, they had decided to make the Halloween buffet.
Buffet which Jana Kay worked at right now.
She was wearing her Hogwarts costume of House Hufflepuff her father had bought her two years ago (which explained why it was only ankle-long instead of foot-long), and even had a 'wand' she had carved out of a piece of wood she had found in the forest the day before.
To her, the buffet looked amazing. There were eyes made of white and brown chocolate, chocolate cupcakes with white and black icing depicting the face of Jack Skellington, entire trays of sweets, muffins decorated with chocolate skeletons, licorice bats and spiders, marshmallow ghosts, 'witch fingers' which were merely rolled sticks of green almond paste set with almond slices for the fingernails and raspberry coulis to mimic blood. There were some 'healthier' treats, like 'apple bites' (quarters of apples shaped like gaping mouths and set with chunks of almonds so they looked like teeth), oranges arranged like jack-o'-lanters, with funny faces, but filled with fruits (cherries, apples, raspberries, raisins, apricot slices, peach chunks and peeled pear squares)... oh, and of course, Jana Kay's own little masterpiece.
She had taken a small seedless watermelon and peeled it carefully to take off the green rind entirely, but not the white one. Then, she had sliced off the base so it would not roll away, drawn lines on it with a toothpick, lines that resembled the folds of a brain, and carved into those lines with a kitchen knife in order to let the red fruit under the white rind show. It had been the best watermelon brain Jana Kay had ever did - and she had made loads of these, at her home in Stirling.
- It looks like this:
There were some warm snacks too: little round pizzas decorated with molten cheese to mimic mummy straps and chunks of olives for the eyes, for example, or bone-like sticks of bread.
James hadn't picked Jana up at her cabin, since she had been near the dance floor all day, helping to arrange it with the Hephaestus cabin, but they had decided to meet at the buffet at six pm, just when the dance started.
The Dance floor was really awesomely decorated: spiderwebs were hanging around (that would freak the Athena children out), automaton-skeletons popped out from behind pillars or heavy curtains to spook Campers, jack-o'-lanterns and black candles were on every table, coffins served as couches, the chairs were designed to look like an assemblage of bones, and black automaton spiders and bats moved around between the decorative skulls.
While handing around cupcakes and sweets from the buffet and giving Campers glasses of blood-orange juice (passed of as blood, of course) or tangerine juice said to be pumpkin juice, Jana Kay kept an eye on the growing crowd for James.
Last edited by Morgan Landry on 11/2/2013, 8:10 pm; edited 1 time in total
