Anyone who knows Arya Jackson for more than five minutes knows her opinion of the world, and demigods not so fair place in it. Unfortunately, since the war Arya isn't that easy to get to know. To most she's little more than a legend.
Arya is fine w...
"There is something worse out there than being sad, and that is being alone and being sad. Ain't nobody in this room alone. Let's be sad now. Let's be sad together."
- Ted Lasso
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24.
Time to Start Again
LEO AND ARYA SAT TO MAKE A PLAN. This was a big undertaking and it would require more manpower than just Leo, even he was willing to admit that. It would take input from almost everyone at camp, but if they succeeded, it would be much easier to go about the quest.
The two of them called the heads of camp, plus the entirety of the Hephaestus cabin, and Jason and Piper, to the cliff in the back North East corner of camp that Leo and Arya were brought to when they first met. The group waited behind them as expectantly as her and Leo stood at the base.
"Are you sure about this?" Arya asked.
"No. But let's go do it anyway."
Leo opened the Bunker Nine and welcomed everyone. It took awhile for everyone to get over their shock, and once they did, Leo started to explain everything they needed to accomplish, and it started with Festus' head that was sitting in the center of the bunker.
"Hephaestus brought it here for you?" Jason asked him.
Leo nodded.
"But you can't repair him," Jason guessed.
"No way," Leo said, shooting me a smile, "But the head is going to be reused. Festus will be going with us."
Piper came over. "What do you mean?"
Before Leo could answer, Nyssa cried out, "Guys, look at this!"
Nyssa was pointing at the battle map of the camp that Arya had found the first time she came in. As the others sat and pondered over it, the thing the gods had said to her clicked in her head.
"That's why they say we won't work." Arya whispered to herself, the others turned to her as things went quiet. "The last time the camps were together... The civil war... The American Civil War mirrored the Half-blood civil war didn't it?"
Chiron solemnly nodded.
He started to give the history to the others while she was deep in thought. She had just assumed the gods were being dramatic when they told her the camps didn't get along. She thought they meant the camps didn't get along in the same way the gods couldn't get along. She did realize the camps hated each other to the point they would wage war.
Suddenly it seemed as though their task might be harder than Arya realized.
"-Even when the Titans threatened last year, I did not think it worth the risk to use this place."
