{2nd Wave; Text}

[natation]

Sender: Athon-Rajah (The Fish Prince) | Percy (Perseus) Jackson

Recipient: Everyone

I know this place is....different. I get that. And I know some of you have been here longer. Way longer than me. But....that doesn't make this any easier? Missing things like Christmas or New Years. Back home I'd celebrate with mum. With my new step-dad. With my girlfriend and the others. I might even miss my sister being born, being here. Or, however this works. I don't know. But...how do the rest of you deal with it? I guess it's kinda more of a sore spot for me since back home Hera erased my memory and sent me off to the other Camp and all, so I've dealt with everyone freaking out over me and me missing things for months.

Spoilers. It sucks. Would not recommend. At all.

Just. This time of year is the hardest I guess. Being without them.

[He'll probably regret admitting this stuff in the morning, but. Well. Percy can't really hide this. His emotions have always been obvious. And as quick to shift from being calm to raging and furious at the drop of a hat. Probably part and parcel of being related to Poseidon and all.]

Comments

[ricebird]

I mean... that's not a bad or foolish thing to hope for, having people you know and care about around.

[natation]

No. It isn't. I just miss them.

[At least the last thing he recalls isn't anything immediately potentially dangerous to his friends or family.]

[ricebird]

That's okay too. Sometimes I miss my friends and family when I'm here too, even if they're safer at home.

[Granted, that feeling's a lot smaller since she JUST came back from a long trip home, but she knows that ache still.]

[natation]

Yeah. I'm just....so used to either being at Camp or with my mum and step dad. It's weird. Not having any of them around, is all. Especially this time of year.

[Christmas and all. Still, he...made it? Mostly. Even if it felt strange and upsetting and...almost wrong somehow to celebrate without the others. He has no idea on whether he is really missing anything back home though since people said you'd go right back to the last you remember.]

[ricebird]

I know the feeling.

[Like how she'd miss her mom when she began cancelling their holiday plans for her second job. But those feelings of loneliness have started to ease a bit, at home and especially here, and they will even more so when she goes on her vacation home.]

[natation]

I'm not sure if that's more....reassuring or concerning.

[Concerning, sad? That someone else gets it. Feeling like this.]