The Forest at night is a scary place (Private)

Jin wandered into the forest in the dead of night, the reason for this was simply because he couldn't sleep. Strolling into the forest he spotted a few monsters and instantly took out his knives, wearily he watched them but was confused as they ignored his prescence.
Lowering his guard a little Jin continued his walk into the forest and the further he went the less guarded he was until he finally sheathed his knives as he was sure he would not get attacked randomly.

As he got further into the forest he spotted a large tree, *hmm why not* Jin thought to himself as he made his way to the tree before laying down onto the forest ground looking up at the leaf covered sky as the trees were enormous in both width and height. As he laid there he began humming a song a matron sang to him whenever he got sick at the orphanage. As his humming got louder, he started singing aloud which must have been melodic as it attracted the attention of the dryads.

As he sang his thoughts took on more depressing thoughts as he began to think about how his mother would sing to him instead of the matrons and because of these thoughts his power manifested into a depressing aura that spread across the forest.

There is no louder sound than the crunch of something you're not supposed to be eating.

That was at least what Dayami was thinking as she snuck through the forest with a pack of Oreos. It was way too late to be out, and she knew that the harpies were not very tolerant of campers who broke the curfew. But she had to find Zeus' Fist as fast as possible, if she wanted any chance at finding her right boot again. A Hermes guy had nicked it the day she moved into her brand new cabin, and she had had to tell him twelve of her most appalling puns to coax the location infos out of him.

Okay, she could've waited until morning. But she was also highly impulsive, and navigating a forest full of monsters for the sake of her right shoe seemed like a perfectly reasonable thing to do at 1 am.
So here she was, dressed in her giraffe pajama/onesie, one boot, and one flip flop, with no other weapon than a bronze knife and a few knock-knock jokes. (What? They're hilarious.) She was doing her best to remember the way whilst trying to make the least noise possible, which was not an easy thing to do.
However, something suddenly made her pull into a halt. Dayami raised her head, ears perking up. Someone, somewhere, was humming.

But it was a weird humming. It felt crushing, sad, miserable. Like an ancient lament. Dayami wondered who could be feeling this way so badly, that they were able to make the melody sound so full of sorrow. On a whim, she decided and turned to the right, burrowing deeper into the forest. She stopped a few meters later, stepping out from between a few bushes to find an enormous oak tree.

"Oh hey Jin! Fancy seeing you here! Why are you here? And why are you humming? Do you want an Oreo?"

The son of Oizys was laying on the ground, looking up at the sky. Having heard the song, Dayami was almost not surprised to find him there.

As he lost himself in his humming, he was brought back to reality but a voice he recognized as soon as he heard it.  *Great, finally got some piece and quiet and now the fates gotta ruin it* As he finally finished cursing the fates he heard Dayami call out his name in greeting with her usual cheery smile.

"Oh hey Jin! Fancy seeing you here! Why are you here? And why are you humming? Do you want an Oreo?" She said to him as she got closer, looking up at her he looked her up and down with his eyes while briefly wondering why she was wearing an odd pair of footwear.  
Sighing to himself he sat up leaning his back against the huge tree trunk as he patted the ground beside him inviting her over.



OOC: Sorry its short and that I took so long to reply assignments have me swamped. Hope you can forgive me 🙏

OOC: Bruv if there's one thing I understand, it's assignments. You're all good.

BIC: Silent as always.

Oh well!
Dayami skipped over and sat down next to him, swinging her legs over a high root. She put the pack of Oreos between them so they could both have some and looked at her friend. "What's up? Do you regularly hang out here at 1 am? Me, it's my first time. Sort of excited." She gave a hearty chuckle.

Withholding a sigh Jin looked over at the clearly excited girl, "No I don't usually come to the forest, it is also my first time here as well". Jin admitted as he took an oreo eating it with gusto. Finishing the oreo, he thanked Dayami for the allowing his some as they happened to be a guilty pleasure of his.

"Why are you here at 1am, this time of day or night I should say doesn't exactly draw out happy people you know?" Jin questioned raising an eyebrow at her while looking at her weird assortment of clothing.

"This Cecil person in cabin 11 stole my boot. He said he put it on Zeus' Fist but I had to go past midnight to find it." She shrugged. "I don't really know where Zeus' Fist is, but it doesn't matter, I can find it. My foot is cold and I just want my boot back." Dayami took another Oreo and chewed on it thoughtfully. "Why are you here by the way?"

Listening to her reason for being out, Jin couldn't help the sigh that escaped his mouth. *Seriously that was her reason, I understand needing to get your belongings as soon as possible but I'm sure it would have been better in the day* Jin thought before shaking his head. There was just some people he just wouldn't get but whatever not his problem right.

He had heard her question but chose to wait a bit to answer, pondering on whether or not he should tell her or not, he could just ignore her but instead decided to answer her question she did give him oreos afterall. "Well I couldn't sleep" Jin said as he reached for an oreo only to grasp nothing. Looking up at the oreo packet he saw it was all finished, sighing in slight depression he slumped back onto the cold ground.

"Oh."

Dayami had understood that when he said he couldn't sleep, it wasn't just some random insomnia thing. "It must be hard, feeling everyone's pain and sorrow all the time", she said after a while in a low voice. "No wonder you've got trouble sleeping." She crossed her legs and looked ahead into the darkness. Down here, you could barely make out the surroundings. "But why the forest? It's really dangerous."

Jin looked over at her in surprise, when she had said the reason why he couldn't sleep. While it wasn't something to be surprised about most people wouldn't have been able to make the connection without a hint. *Maybe she's smarter than I give her credit for* Jin thought before he was brought back to reality as Dayami spoke again drawing back his attention.

Thinking about the question she had asked, he wondered why he chose the forest to stay in. "That's actually a good question, I honestly don't know why I chose the forest. Who knows maybe my dad was a descendant of hades and hades favours me" Jin replied humorously

"Well aren't you just a little ray of pitch black." Dayami had seen Nico Di Angelo from afar, the son of Hades, and he had a weird vibe around him. He didn't look like a really fun person to be around -- except when he was with his boyfriend, Will. The two balanced each other out.
She picked at her giraffe pajamas, wishing she had more Oreos. Or chocolate. Anything that would help cheer Jin up a little. (Also, she was hungry.)

"So, are you just gonna sit here for the next five hours?" she asked after a moment. "I mean, we could do something. Everyone's sleeping. Even the cleaning harpies."

Smirking at her comment, Jin looked up at the star-filled sky. "Hmm I haven't thought of doing anything really I mean I came here on a whim but I don't mind any suggestions that you have".

"Well for starters we could prank a cabin," she offered, counting on her fingers. "We could also raid the kitchen, sneak out of camp, or steal things from the store. Gods know I'd die for some winged shoes," she wistfully sighed.

Hearing her suggestions, Jin grinned slightly as he got up off the ground. "Why not let's go," Jin said as he waited for Dayami. "If we're gonna do this, though, we might as well go all out and frame the Hermes kids.

Walking in the direction of the forest entrance, he turned around and this time as he spoke his voice was lighter than normal, "Thank you" Jin said softly as he turned around again as if he hadn't said anything.

Dayami smiled behind him, once he had turned around. Maybe Jin wasn't all gloom and grumble after all.

She caught up with him in her squeaky footwear and ducked under a low branch. "We could put shaving foam on stuff. The Hermes kids do it all the time!"

Walking out of the forest, Jin makes his way over to the Hermes cabin intent on pranking them as they tried on him even though they weren't successful.

Creeping into the cabin, he paused as one of the boys tossed and turned while groaning in their sleep, mentally sighing Jin waved Dayami in while gesturing to be quiet as he reached for the shaving foam conveniently placed close by in the Hemes cabin hiding spot where they keep all stolen goods and pranking material.

"Alright, so here's the foam, now let's get to work" he whispered to her grinning lightly.


OOC: I'm soo sorry I was away on tour in Europe and didn't have any spare time but I'm back now xD

OOC: No worries, uni kept me busy. How was Europe? :)

BIC: Dayami snuck in behind Jin -- she could be quite stealthy sometimes. Once outside again with the foam, she put her shoes back on and stole over to a spot next to a fountain, where the splashing of the water would cover their whispering. "So, what's the plan?" she asked in a low voice, her eyes gleaming in the dark.

Once Jin was next to the fountain, outside he heard Dayami ask what their next move was. "Okay, here's how the plan goes, we're gonna sneak into the aphrodite cabin and replace all their shampoo with hair dye, Jin said before looking at Dayami and continuing. "You do have hair dye don't you? Jin questioned raising an eyebrow.

(OOC: Sorry its so short, I'll post a longer one next time xD)

"Nope! But I'm sure they do." What would be the Aphrodite cabin without pretty dyes and gels? As they tiptoed over, she whispered: "Apparently, this one time, two Ares girls poured all the nail polish they could find into the clothing drawers of the Aphrodite's. And into the soap bottles! They were so mad they made them smell like rancid subway sandwiches for two weeks."

Listening to what she said, Jin nodded in agreement as it was true. For demi-gods, they're pretty useless, such a shame as well. He thought before he was pulled out of his train of thought as he heard Dayami explain a prank that left the children of Aphrodite's cabin smelling like rancid subway sandwiches.

"Well, that's all well and good, but out prank will be plaguing their dreams for years to come, when we're done with them they're gonna be so scared to dye their hair ever again. Jin said with a sinister smirk as he crept towards the Aphrodite cabin making sure Dayami kept up with him by reaching out into the darkness and touching her shoulder.

As he reached out to touch her shoulder, the worst thing happened. Jin didn't know if it was because she was moving at the time or because he miscalculated but his hand brushed up upon her chest. Jin drew his hand back as quick as possible while stammering out apologies left and right.

"I'm, umm uh. sorry bout that, it was an accident. " Jin stammered out as he turned around to face her, meaning she could see the blush upon his cheeks which would normally be hard to see but that just said how embarrassed Jin was of the situation.

The edge in his voice made the hair on her neck prickle up. She didn't know what was up with this dude, but his parentage gave him a scary vibe -- as if he could give you more misery than anything else in the world, dodgy Wi-Fi and soggy socks included. "What did the Aphrodite's do to you? You sound like you've got a vendetta against them or something," she whispered, but before he could answer, something weird happened.

Dayami felt her face and neck get suddenly very hot. Her fists crossed over her chest as she pulled the edges of her pajamas closer together and fumbled awkwardly with her night clothes. Jin's face was red too from what she could see in the faint light of flickering braziers, but she couldn't bring herself to meet his eye. Spotting a snake in the grass not far away, she tried to warn Jin but forgot the word 'snake', so she blurted out, "Oh look, there's a danger noodle."

Still blushing Jin used her question as a distraction. "I don't have anything against them, I just think that if they spent as much time and effort on their appearance as they did with training they would benefit the camp more and survive longer.

I think tha- danger noodle?, what the hell. Jin said as what he said was interrupted as he unintentionally repeated what Dayami has said in his surprise. Stopping to think about what she had just said, Jin looked at her with a raised eyebrow asking her to explain without saying anything.

"There." She pointed at the snake in the grass. From where she was, she couldn't see if it was a venomous one or not -- let alone a mythological one. She'd been here only two weeks after all and wasn't the best at monster spotting. As a matter of fact, she would actually welcome a monster if it could possibly distract both of them from, cough, the current situation.

Looking at where she pointed to, Jin spotted a snake moving along the ground slithering across the grass. Jin looked at the snake and back to Dayami, "Did you really call that a danger noodle?" Jin said with a hint of amusement as a grin threatened to show on his normally stoic face.

As the snake slithered towards him, Jin drew his knife and swung at the animal, successfully killing it with a fatal stab, the snake dissolves into a sand-like substance letting both Dayami and Jin know it was a mythical creature.

Sheathing his weapon once again, Jin faced Dayami in order to ask if they were still going on with their prank but averted his eyes once he laid them on her as his mind chose that moment to remember the reason why they had become sidetracked. In an uncertain tone of voice, Jin stammered along his words once again as he asked his partner in crime whether or not she was still up for pranking the Aphrodite cabin or not.

While Jin wouldn't mind continuing with their earlier plans, he didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable around him, because as much as he denies it Jin knew Dayami was his best friend and the only person who had taken the time to get to know him in the time he was in the camp despite what people told her.

"Did you really call that a danger noodle?" Jin asked, a slight bit of a grin in his voice.

"Fight me about it." But then, quick as a viper, Jin sliced through the snake with a single backhanded stab. Dayami had barely seen his blade flash. "I'm glad you didn't fight me about it."

After the weird snake had evaporated into golden monster dust, Dayami shivered and nudged the grass. "It'd be a shame to give up so close," she said. "But let's be quick."

Grinning at her remark as he cut the snake down, Jin fully smiled in amusement at her next comment.

"It'd be a shame to give up so close," "Hn" Jin grunted in agreement before continuing on to the cabin in silent agreement to Dayami's words.

"Yeah let's". Jin said looking back towards her extending his arm out with his hand in a tight fist, indicating he wanted to bump fists with her in a sign of comradeship.