The Eye of The Storm - 1. Rememberance

CHAPTER 4 Sleep tight; don't let the bronze bulls burn you to death!

As I begin to walk around the cabin area, my sight is searching for Noah. After hearing that discussion at the dinner table, something told me that I have to talk to him. I didn't understand the feeling well back then and I still don't understand it now. And, as I was searching for the son of Ares amongst the campers going around, I trip and fell to the ground.

"H-Hey there!" I heard a muffled voice behind me. "Watch where you are going, will you?"

I turn around and see a girl getting up from the ground. She has a sleepy expression on her face and long flowing ginger hair. She is wearing comfortable clothes, mainly a white blouse with tiny yellow flowers and a pair of long leggings to match her top. She rubs her eyes and says yawning:

"I...By Hypnos, I fell asleep AGAIN?!"

She stretches her arms up into the air and gets up from the ground, carefully removing the dirt that remained on her leggings. She then helps me do the same. She clears some of the drool remaining on her left cheek, meaning the slumber was deep and pleasant.

"My apologies." She says. "I think I skipped my meds! Again."

She stretches her hand and smiles warmly. Her bottle green eyes are unusually lively for a person who's just awaken from her slumber.

"I'm June!" the girl jovially says. "Daughter of Hypnos. Pleased to meet you!"

"I'm Alison." I reply. "Same."

I turn around and I see Noah approaching us. He is wearing a pair of gray jeans and a sweatshirt over his bright orange T-shirt. He has a brown backpack hanging from his left shoulder.

"Are you guys, okay?" he asks worried. "I saw both of you lying down on the grass and I assumed you were...Hang on, June, skipping medications again, are we?"

"You got me, doc!" the girl chuckles. "I couldn't find them anywhere in the cabin. I thought I left them on the nightstand but when I asked Ashlyn, she told me she doesn't know of any pills..."

"Nectar won't help?"

"I admit I haven't tried yet." June says.

He then turned to me and bent over to examine my knee.

"Alison, are you okay?" the son of Ares asks slowly massaging my knee. "I don't see any serious injuries, just a bruise, but it will heal in no time. Does it still hurt you?"

"I'm fine." I reply. "In fact, I've been looking for you."

"And I for you two. Come, we don't want to miss the campfire."

"Have I slept for that long?" June asks worried. "Wow, time sure flies when you are having fun."

"What's fun in sleeping?" I ask as the three of us walk to the site of the campfire.

"For Hypnos being the Greek god of sleep," June begins, this time speaking in a somehow sleepy manner, "his children spend more time dreaming than any other demigods. Be it night or day, dreams are fun and reveal a lot about you. Nightmares are not so funny, and when it comes to them, we demigods have them the wildest."

"How wild?"

"Very. They show visions of the past, present and future. Usually it's not that bad."

"You said something about dreams revealing a thing or two about us?" I ask. This topic seems to have suddenly caught my interest.

"Oh, right, that one." June adds snapping her fingers. "Dreams tell a lot about you. For instance, if you dream of losing your teeth, you are afraid of getting old. What can I say; I am quite lucky and not so lucky at the same time."