OOTD: Went to bed in plain black jammies.
Makeup: Didn't bother with my nighttime skin routine. Too tired.
Hairstyle: Hair down as always when I go to bed.
Fragrance: The smell of exhaustion.
Dear Diary,
That orientation video was...a word that I have to wait for to be invented, because no current word in the English language was strong enough to fully describe what I just witnessed.
Like seriously.
The video was that bizarre.
On the bright side though, I felt like I had a slightly better sense of how Camp Half-Blood worked, so I was kind of thankful for that.
After I finished up inside the Big House, Chiron escorted me over to the green where the cabins were. As I got closer to them, I realized that they didn't exactly look like regular cabins. Each one had a different exterior, probably meant to represent different gods. I couldn't help but check out all the different cabin styles and trying to guess what kind of god owned them. There was one cabin that reminded me of some casinos I'd seen in commercials about Las Vegas, probably for some god or goddess of money or gambling. Another cabin was made of darkly-colored cobblestones. I couldn't see super well, but the stones seemed to have different inscriptions on them. Maybe a god or goddess of writing? There was a different cabin, in the shape of an igloo; I guessed that was for a god or goddess of winter or snow. There was another gothic-looking cabin that was completely black, with green-fire torches on the outside and no windows. Maybe a god or goddess of darkness?
I spotted Tharika and Phil sitting on the steps of a cabin that reminded me of the Griffith Observatory in LA, with the same white walls and columns and a massive grey dome on top. Sticking out of the dome was a huge telescope that was slowly moving back and forth across the night sky.
Tharika and Phil had set up a picnic blanket on the steps, with chips, cookies, and fruit strewn about. Tharika held her own mini telescope in her hand that matched the one on the cabin, and she was passing it to Phil, pointing at something in the sky. When the two of them noticed me with Chiron, Phil rolled his eyes and Tharika smiled apologetically. I smiled back at her, but quickly went back to checking out the cabins. While Tharika seemed like a nice girl, her super rude boyfriend was a different story.
As we continued strolling through the green, I tried my best to guess which cabin might have been Aphrodite's, but there were a couple that seemed like they could fit. One was a cabin surrounded by an assortment of flower bushes and willow vines, with little ponds around the sides. Another one looked like the most bougie cabin I'd ever seen. It was a luxurious farmhouse-style cabin, and I could see glimpses of gold chandeliers and fancy furniture through the floor-to-ceiling windows on the cabin's front porch. Through the windows of another cabin, I could see what looked like a lovely little spa room, complete with massage tables, massage chairs, and indoor bath springs.
"Looking for something?" Chiron asked from behind me.
I smiled awkwardly. "Sorry. I was just trying to see if I could figure out which cabin was Aphrodite's. I know I can't stay there yet, but I wanted to know what it looks like." I pointed to the cabin with the flowers and ponds. "Is it that one over there?"
Chiron shook his head. "No. That's Antheia's cabin, the goddess of flowers and marshes." He pointed to a different building right across the green. "That is Aphrodite's cabin, Cabin 10."
When I followed his finger, I saw a lovely little wooden cabin that had been painted over in a dark cherry finish with hints of pink coming through. All around the perimeter of the cabin were assorted rose bushes with ceramic doves and swans planted between them. On the door hung a carving of a pretty woman standing in a scallop shell as it rose out of the sea. My favorite piece of decor, however, were the adorable heart-shaped fairy lights hanging off the entire perimeter of the cabin roof. They shimmered and sparkled softly in the darkness, and gave the outside of the cabin a sort of warm, cozy feeling.
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Chanel Hastings & The Treasures of Aphrodite Book 1: The Magic Girdle
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