Final Campfire

[camphalf_blood]

[the flames are especially bright tonight. A satyr stands before the gathered residents, beaming at them]

Tonight is the traditional bead ceremony. For those new to our camp, each year we present a bead depicting the most important event of the year. But there were so many events to choose from this year, so we have enchanted the beads so they will each show the wearer what they viewed as the most important event!

All of our new campers will also receive a leather necklace from which to hang the bead. We hope that you carry this token of Camp Half-Blood with you out into the world, and may the gods watch over you all.


[last campfire, guys, so make your own sections and tag like crazy!]

Comments

Edge of the campfire

[inmylight_commander]

[Kat's standing back and watching everyone else. She's been given a lot to think about, and looking down at her bead she's still trying to make sense of it all. Would she go back with them tomorrow? To this other life, a jumbled heap of memories and feelings and emotions?]

[She continues to lean up against a tree and alternately consider her bead and those around her.]

[cricketycricket]

[Five doesn't know her - or at least, he doesn't think he does - but he knows a troubled expression when he sees one, and wanders over]

Are you alright?

[inmylight_commander]

[She looks at him and immediately thinks of numbers and space and a very odd sound.]

I've just got a lot on my mind. Tomorrow's going to be ... interesting. [She feels like she's on the precipice of something she can't quite control, entirely unsure if she'll go back with everyone else or if she'll wake up in camp tomorrow and just think it was an odd dream.]

[cricketycricket]

Gotten used to the place, have you, then? [he just figures she's ... a regular resident. damn the timing of this loss, hehe]

[inmylight_commander]

[She looks over at him with a faint, confused frown.] No, I -- I grew up here. I've been here. But, I guess I've been somewhere else, too? I might go back tomorrow, to a place I've apparently been but am only now remembering.

[cricketycricket]

Oh, dear. You're referring to Paradisa, are you not? As "somewhere else", I mean. People coming up to you and recognizing you, even though you don't know them, most likely?

[inmylight_commander]

Exactly. I had a lengthy discussion with Foxtrot-12 about things I'd done and people I knew. [She looks at him closely another moment, considering.] Even you're somewhat familiar.

[cricketycricket]

Mm, I get that quite a lot recently. Apparently it's entirely possible for folks to leave the place and return with no memories of it whatsoever... But if you do follow us back, I promise, I'll help you as much as I can. If we were friends, I owe you that much at the very least. I'm the Doctor... And I'm sure it's just as lovely to meet you now as it was then.

[inmylight_commander]

Doctor. [A brief frown of concentration,] The fifth one, right? There's more of you -- [She can't understand why this concept makes sense to her.]

[cricketycricket]

[unfortunately, if he could remember Paris or Castelia, he'd be dealing with this with a lot more care and caution - he'd know how hard the memories can hit ... but in this case, he's just going to forge ahead and think nothing of it. damn you, Paradisa]

Yes - yes, my regenerations, that's precisely right. Though I'm the only one here, it seems. Which is fair enough, I'd be worried about paradoxes otherwise.

[inmylight_commander]

[Something tugs on Kat's memories, and she frowns a little more at him.] No ... wasn't there another one?

[cricketycricket]

I'm told that there was, yes, but that he left, a bit before I did and came back...