The arena of Camp Half-Blood was something else than the underground fighting pits in Seattle; here everything was white marble and pale sand, walls lined with weapon lockers and dummies in Greek armor placed here and there. Twirling a javelin in her hand, Shay mentally compared all this to the industrial lighting and dark stone of the rooms in which she had learned to fight with all the other girls.
She wasn't yet wearing the vivid orange tees nearly everyone around here was carrying, she would once she felt she belonged here. Right now, she was sporting black workout leggings and a deep red hoodie with her combat boots, her black hair braided down her back. The Asian girl glanced to the right and let on impulse her javelin hiss through the air, catching the dummy in the right eyehole of its helmet. Tucking a wild streak behind her ear, she drew another javelin from the tubes inside her crescent-shaped shield and gazed at the dummies, selecting her next "victim". This was too easy, where was everything? Where were all the arrow traps, hidden pits, spinning blades and scythe pendulums? If demigods were trained like this, no wonder so many of them sucked at surviving.
She wasn't yet wearing the vivid orange tees nearly everyone around here was carrying, she would once she felt she belonged here. Right now, she was sporting black workout leggings and a deep red hoodie with her combat boots, her black hair braided down her back. The Asian girl glanced to the right and let on impulse her javelin hiss through the air, catching the dummy in the right eyehole of its helmet. Tucking a wild streak behind her ear, she drew another javelin from the tubes inside her crescent-shaped shield and gazed at the dummies, selecting her next "victim". This was too easy, where was everything? Where were all the arrow traps, hidden pits, spinning blades and scythe pendulums? If demigods were trained like this, no wonder so many of them sucked at surviving.