Blessings from Khaos

|Te amo más que a mi propia piel|

"Of Aeri, goddess of lovely song, I will sing. She who tells of things that are and that shall be and that were aforetime with consenting voice, noble and lovely, armed with arrows dread. Smiles are ever on her lovely face, she who radiates feminine charm that no man could possibly resist. Over the shadowy hills and windy peaks she draws her golden bow, rejoicing in the chase, and sends out grievous shafts. Hail, sweetly-winning, dark-eyed goddess! I seek your favour with my song."
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There was a cause for worry when the ship was consistently being hit by ice storms. The children had inferred that it had something to do with Diocletian's Scepter, but the deities had another thought; one that was shared between Drew and Annabeth as they looked around them.

Either way, the children were still tired, and Annabeth (and Eliza back at Camp Half-Blood) were feeling the aftereffects of whatever Percy and Octavian were going through while they were in Tartara. Pranjal and Medea were helping her with it as much as they could while Medea was also doing all the research that she could manage for her upcoming fight at the Doors of Death. They only received the bare minimum of news about the blessed pair when a note appeared in the brazier of Camp Half-Blood written by Percy and Octavian. Once Kheírōn translated it because Octavian was nothing else but a troll and wrote his part entirely in latin which included a specialized code that only those of the Twelfth Legion knew, the campers sent off an envoy to begin talks of peace.

Mercurius doubted that it would work, but he had to hold Mārs and Bellōna back when the Dodie boy looked at Reyna and said: "I watched his wildest dreams come true and not one of the involved you." as the girl was contemplating on leaving to assist the crew. Veritas had smiled smugly. Though, everything was made worse when the boy hissed, "Lilith is in love with you!" and the girl flinched as if she had been hit.

Not that it stopped Reyna as she immediately prepped her pegasus for her leave. Bellōna winced because that meant that her daughter; a child of war, was deserting her post.

Either way, it was only the trio that started it all on the top deck, and Father shifted in his seat.

Something was about to happen.

Mercurius wished that his brother was there.

Drew fumbled with the tarot cards that she had been gifted from Medea when the girl had expressed interest. Not that Drew was gifted in tarot and any attempts to read the cards pulled her into vivid trances that she couldn't always escape from on her own. She saw a bit too much as her title of being Apóllōn's champion and the Protector of Ill-fated Lovers led her to view things that she would rather not, and Ethan suffered through the backlash when she got injured within the visions. Though through them, she had managed to share a good amount of information about Lilith with Leo to which Medea, Jason, and Pranjal added on in detail and turned the little mechanic into a blushing mess.

Even then, Hērmês wanted to push her to view more. She had seen his Leaneíras within the cards; her future bringing her closer and closer to being back in his arms. Something that was confirmed by Apóllōn when he begged his brother for answers.

'I keep seeing that giant Clytius – the guy who's wrapped in shadows," Drew murmured. "I know his weakness is fire, but in the cards, he snuffs out flames wherever he goes. Any kind of light just gets sucked into his cloud of darkness.'

'Sounds like Nico,' Leo said. 'You think they're related?'

Jason scowled. 'Hey, man, cut Nico some slack. So, Drew, what about this giant? What are you thinking?'

Jason and Nico had not spoken much about what happened when they were on their little adventure, but Drew was this thing called: nosey as hell. She managed to sweet talk both of them; without the use of her chamspeak, into telling her whom they met, and then both of them were startled alongside Árēs and Aphrodítē when she started cursing and spewing threats the moment that she learned that they met Cupido.