Tripping Hazard [Remus]

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The wind was blowing slightly, making the steadily growing heat slightly more bearable. Summer was on it's way, and Rhiannon was not happy. Eight years living in this camp, and eight years of training in the hot, humid Cali summer. She wanted nothing more than to fill out these last two years and be done with the whole annoying mess. No, that wasn't right. A smile played across her face. Once Saturn was in charge there would be no need for the legion anymore. Demigods wouldn't be popping up everywhere, and monsters wouldn't be trying to kill them left and right. Monsters supremely feared Saturn, and for good reason. She was fairly certain the man, god, wouldn't let them all die in this god forsaken camp. He was kind, and every time he spoke with her she felt better. The anger that rushed through her veins, the thoughts about annoying idiotic people around her, all of the unpleasant things melted away. Oh she knew unpleasant things were coming, things that would again haunt her for the rest of her life, but that was something she had prepared for the moment Saturn wanted her help. Killing another demigod, another human being, another living creature, was going to be inevitable. Jason for one, while he was a terribly annoying person, was not a bad guy. Charlie was another example of a good person, and they were keen against the cause. Rhiannon had not talked to them directly about it, but Felicity had. She imagined Remus was the same, and anyone like him or Charlie. Even after meeting Saturn, Remus and Jason had decided against him. It was highly unfortunate. She doubted they would stop fighting, not until they were dead.

Training during the day was more annoying than training at night, but other people were not often awake at night. While Rhiannon would normally prefer that, she forced herself to be slightly more social. Talking to people, just a little here and there. A sweet little compliment or two about them, small talk, then back to whatever she was doing. Every so often she would bring up a hint, a tidbit about the gods idiocy, and to their friend a little bit about the golden age of man. Never to the same two people, but always to friends. Then they would talk about it themselves, and much more detailed. Perfect. Plant a seed here and there, then watch it grow in the fertile soil. It also made it easy for her to play off the less than friendly words she had, making notes of who were so very loyal to camp and the gods. That was what she had been doing for the day, perspiration on her forehead and in her hair as she flopped in the shade of a tree. Training and talking at the same time was difficult, and seemed to expend more energy than just training in silence.

There was going to be another war, no doubt, and with another war meant more trauma, more pain, more death. Saturn was never going to stop trying to come back to power, and the gods were never going to listen to their parent. That certainly sounded familiar. Half the camp didn't listen to their godly parents, wasn't that obvious from how many people started turning to Saturn? The loving grandfather, or great grandfather of most of the camp. When he would finally be in charge again there was going to be no more war. These petty power struggles that caught mortals and children in them would be gone. Even that war monger Mars would be put out of his job, because there would no longer be fighting anywhere. Now Rhiannon was not an idiot, she knew complete peace was not possible with humans being the way they are now. They'd all have to be under some kind of forced control, possibly fear. Humans were just disagreeing creatures like that. Rules, regulations, and orders where simply suggestions most of the time in Rhiannon's mind. She'd normally take to the opposite direction when someone tried to command her, she hated it. Hated when people thought they could control her. Despite all that, she was willing to do as Saturn said, willing to forever be under his thumb, if only it meant people didn't have to kill each other anymore.

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Remus wasn’t good at stealth. That was never her high point. He was a fighter, not like some Mercury kid or something like that. Which made him think of a certain Mercury kid off on the quest. Well, there were actually two of them in such a position, which sounded like a bad idea to him but that was the gods’ call. But most importantly, one of them in particular who was helping him out and to whom he owed a favor. Josh Rogers. Well known, especially by himself, for not being very helpful around the camp. That was to say that he tended to get in a ton of trouble on a regular basis. But now things were different. With Saturn attempting to rise again, there were a lot of unknown chips on the table. And, well, Josh was actually helping to make some of those a little more known. Of all the people to play a double agent, Josh was both surprising on being it and also possibly the best suited for the job. It was an odd situation to say the least.

But just as if that wasn’t odd enough, he just had to be dating a girl who was causing even more grief around here with her subtle ways and slight of hand. Then again, he really couldn’t talk on that subject, as his own girlfriend was now basically considered certifiably insane. But the tricky part came when Josh had to leave on a quest. And he asked Remus to keep an eye on Rhia for him. It was hardly a secret that he and Rhia didn’t get along very well. From the first time they’d met, they’d more or less attempted to kill each other. Okay, so that might have been overdramatizing it, but it was close enough. And now Rhia was making being her babysitter a heck of a lot harder by being not just herself but also being a twisted little evil version of herself. Great. Here, Remus, go look after this maniacal little anti-gods crazy chick for an unspecified amount of time until I get back. Yeah, that was going to be fun. Though at the same time, it was good to be keeping an eye on her. Heavens knew he needed to. She was not the sort that it was safe to leave her alone for very long.

Though speaking of alone, he caught sight of her on her own heading for the woods as he was helping one of the other cohorts in training. He made a mental note of that. So the moment training was done, he headed for the woods under the guise of looking for a challenge among some of the monsters that resided there. And a challenge it would be. Time to have a nice little chat with Rhiannon Warlow. It took a little bit to find her, but tracking lessons here at Camp Jupiter paid off. That and possibly just luck. Eventually he found her lounging under the shade of a tree. “Rhiannon. Can’t say I was expecting to find you here.” Which was true enough. Sort of. He had followed her, yes, but her hiding in the woods was not necessarily expected. “I’d yell at you for not being training, but I do believe your cohort is off at the moment, am I right?” Don’t pick a fight with her, he had to remind himself. He was here for his own sort of spying purposes, not simply his same old find something wrong with Rhia and point it out purposes.

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Word Count: 596
Notes: this promises to be interesting

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The shade was amazingly cool, at least compared to the bright sun that seemed to be beating down at full force. It probably would have been better to go to the pool or something, but that was too much work, walking all the way there from the Fields of Mars. Shade, and lack of that stupid armor was all she really needed right now. Closing her eyes and just letting herself relax in the shade Rhiannon was ready to pass out, even if she wasn't in her normal foresty hide out. That was until she heard a familiar and obnoxious voice. Slowly the lids of her eyes opened, and she focused on the person hovering over her. She let out a long heavy sigh, hot head was not someone she wanted to deal with at the moment. More so than normal, because she hardly had the energy required to rebel against him. Besides he had no reason to say anything to her, she'd been going to cohort training and he should know it just ended. Yep. He did. So why was he here? Normally you'd see a person you weren't fond of and kept marching right? "Don't you have paperwork to do? Or has Zidane's replacement made himself useful?" Rhiannon knew how valuable a medic could be, and personalty felt Jason's place was in the infirmary. No skin off her back though, both the praetors had decided against Saturn and been attacked in their dreams. She had already confirmed that Jason had been attacked anyway.

"That's right, I actually went to cohort training today. I know, amazing." Oh talking was so tiring, she wanted to say more, be a bit more aggressive or something. She wasn't quite sure what it was she wanted, but this certainly was not it. She barely scratched up enough energy for the sarcasm. Working on magical runes, putting large amounts of energy into them before dishing out everything else for training left her more than a little tired. She even wasted energy on human interaction, because that's just about all it amounts to. Wasted energy unless they actually joined Saturn's cause. Humans had all these formalities you had to watch out for, and emotions shown or hidden wasted energy that could better be used on actual training or runes. Rhiannon was just not fit to be with people, she'd known that for a long time.

Not moving from her nice comfy spot on the ground Rhiannon just stared up at Remus. Still there. No real reason, especially since he even mentioned he knew she'd just gotten done with cohort training. "What do you want?" simple, and to the point. The older male just needed to get whatever he wanted to say to her, for good or ill, out of the way and move on. Just like everyone else, just like they always did. Though it normally started with a fight and ended with Rhiannon failing against the son of Mars. That little process was only slightly sped up this time, skipping directly to Rhiannon giving up the physical fight. The mental one she would still try to keep going if he wanted, even if she wasn't exactly thinking straight from the exhaustion.

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Ah, pleasant as always. There was a reason Remus usually avoided the little rebellious stain that was Rhiannon. But he had his own job to do here. He had to know what she was up to. She had been acting suspiciously and even if she hadn’t been , he didn’t trust her and was on orders – or rather, granting a favor – to keep an eye on the troublemaker. So that was just what he was going to do. She sighed when she questioned him, knowing full well it had been coming. She had a point, of course, he had no real reason that she could be aware of as to why he was here right now bothering her. And he wasn’t about to tell her Josh was worried about her. “I actually am all caught up, thank you for your concern. And yes, he has. Though I should make note that he does have a name, thank you very much.” Was it weird that he was standing up for Jason? Possibly. But he was a good guy and Remus even considered him a friend. And that was before Jason became a praetor. So it was kind of nice to have someone he already got along with to work with.

He smirked. When she wasn’t being a brat, it was a lot easier not to be directly mean to her. Sure, he still hated her, but that didn’t mean he had to show it. “Good. So you’re finally learning. About time. What brought about the unusual display of brainpower?” Sarcasm. Around Rhiannon, it was like a second fluent language for him. Albeit, that might be because she used it on him first. She made it quite easy to dislike her, though that had been from the first day they’d met, so there was a decent chance it was more habit now than anything.

Which might also explain why he was here, besides the favor for Josh. But he couldn’t explain that last part to her. That would both be weird – like he actually cared about her wellbeing or something, which given their relationship, would not work – and unfair to Josh, who was trying to keep it all under wraps for understandable reasons. So that left him with making something up. Which he wasn’t quite so sure of his skills in that area, but if he didn’t make something up quick, then there went seeing what she-… or he could just go with that. He smirked. “It’s been far too long since we’ve had one of our trademark lovely deep discussions. Things seem so empty without picking on your sorry butt. So do tell, what have you been up to lately? Besides finally attending your training.”

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Word Count: 454
Notes: sorry it’s so short. Ran out of stuff to say at the end.

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Talking, why did this child of Mars just have to talk so very much? Oh right, he had the energy for it. Rhiannon eyed him, actually turned her head so she could get a good look at this so called leader. He looked like her had just come from practice himself, so wouldn't it be better of he just left and did something else? Maybe take a nice cool shower? Anything but be here as an annoying little gnat. Large gnat. He towered over her even when she wasn't laying down, oh well. "Right, right, Jason the annoying idiot. I know. I felt replacement was better that that little title though." Well that was one thing she could thank the fates for. She was found by Remus and not the ever flirting little bag of annoyance that was Jason. Why did he always make a gave of seeing how red her face could turn? Not in the angry sense either. She could handle anger just fine.

"Oh I've always have a lovely...uuugggghhhh. I don't want to do this. Insert cocky reply here." Yep, Rhiannon had hit a new low on the lazy scale. She didn't even want to finish up her though process for that one. Lovely amount of brainpower and...she wasn't exactly sure where to go with that. Probably something mocking Remus lack of brain and too much brawn. She was sure he'd put the pieces together, or laugh. Whatever, something was going to happen and it was not about to be her waisting energy trading sarcastic remarks with the muscle bound idiot over here. Though she had to admit there were few people she could have such a sarcastic conversation with.

A long string of curse words ran through the curly haired, damp with sweat head that belonged to Rhiannon Warlow. An open ended question. It was on purpose, it just had to be. She stared at him with the most hate and annoyance she could muster. All she wanted was to lay her in the shade and relax. Maybe take a little nap, and he came along with this question. "You're doing this on purpose aren't you. You followed me out here just to waist even more of my energy talking to you." She was fairly sure that sounded paranoid as possible, but given they were in a rather large forest and she had picked a random spot to flop down in, there was a possibility he followed her. Slight, and she was pretty sure he didn't hate her quite that much, but it existed. Now she was just trying to justify her paranoia. Joy.

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Remus rolled his eyes. Sure there were a lot of places he would rather have been
Right now, but there weren’t many of them that he owed it to someone to be there. And odd as it sounded, he did get along with Josh. And well, the whole Josh risking his life for their side thing sort of meant Remus had to do something, right? He sort of major time owed him one. “That ‘annoying idiot’ is one of your praetors, Warlow.” Though he knew it would never come from her, he out of habit was always one to push for respect. And Jason deserved it now. Not that he hadn’t before, but he had earned even more now.

He listened to her try to start what sounded like it was going to be a nice insult as per her usual means, but stop halfway through. The fact that she couldn’t even pull off an insult made him smirk. “Wait, say that again. You don’t want to do this? The great Rhianna Warlow raises the white flag. Very unRoman of you. And very unRhiannon of you. Feeling sick maybe? Thank the gods, maybe that would mean this camp would be peaceful for a change without your mouth running like a squealing pig.” He chuckled. Ah, making fun of Rhia. One of his favorite pastimes.

This was turning into a good day. Which was surprising because there really was no normal reason it should be. Just another day of training and that sort of thing. But there was something nice about bugging Rhia and having it actually seem to get to her that was just so refreshing. He chuckled at her comment about his intentions. It was obvious she was irritated, but that was half the fun of it, right? And also it was apparent that their usual brawl was likely not going to happen. Not that he was pleased or displeased one way or the other on that one really. He might be a child of Mars, but that didn’t mean that the world revolved around fighting for him. Just that most of it did. “And what if I am doing it on purpose? Maybe I have a secret agenda to stalk you and see what’s going on in that little brain of yours. And I do mean little. I’m secretly spying on you, Rhiannon. You found me out. My devious plan to waste all your energy so you can’t fight anymore.” He added a fake evil laugh just for grins and giggles then laughed for real. “Yeah, no. Since we both know how enriching talking to each other is.”

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Word Count: 440
Notes: small, but at least it exists finally, lol

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Remus fricken Stone. Just the name screamed Mars, who wasn't such a bad guy. You know except for flirting with every female in camp, goddesses, mortals, whatever. She could deal with that, she dealt with Josh most of her life. Perhaps not so much the obvious flirty Jason did directed at her, but Mars hadn't done that, just given her a knife. Everyone loves knives, at least you should in the Legion. It was such a well balanced knife too. Josh didn't want her using it and even went so far as to commission Simons to make an elegant blade for her. Way to decorative for her tastes, but it was so well made. That Simons always seemed to know how to make weapons correctly the first time. She liked that about him, and had decided to make him the go to guy for all of her metal problems. Free to boot. It was such a great plan here at the Legion, free weapons, replacement, fixes, whatever you needed. Yet she wanted to destroy it. Tear it apart, so that no one lived here again. Yep, that's why she was with Saturn after all. One of a few reasons, all that came back to Saturn being the best and only way to really complete it. Not to mention the fact he'd become her friend, someone she trusted, and liked. A very hard combination to come by. For instance, she trusted Stone. Didn't like him, but she'd be willing to bet her soul he'd never do anything to hurt the camp or it's campers. Probably place a similar bet on him being a man of his word. Did not mean she liked him.

Curse words flew through her mind again, English, Latin, Finnish, Celtic, a whole slew of her favorites. He'd won this battle today, she knew it and wasn't about to use her valuable energy on him. She still had some runes to make later, and she'd need every drop of vitality. She put every bit of herself into thous spells, wanting to make them as powerful as she could before passing out. No use in keeping an ounce of it to herself when she's just going to sleep afterward. However the fact this slight win went straight to his thick skull annoyed her. Looking at that cocky smile she could tell he knew it also. Knew it bothered her, knew she was getting pissed but had no energy to really retaliate as she normally did. Words of course, she hated being the first to throw a punch. Stone was so easy to get riled up sometimes too. He even dared to laugh after his long winded ramble about how unlike her it was to just take this laying down. Yeah, literally. “Just stop talking.”

How did that song go again? Loathing! Unadulterated loathing! She needed to find that song again, maybe have Josh take her somewhere. Maybe if he wasn't gone on that quest. It described her feeling so well at the moment. It should have been in a play, it'd be nice to see that live. When was he going to be back? He would be back, she made sure to train him incredibly well before he left. Throwing anything she could think of at him, even trying to emulate some monster attacks. There was also the random monster attack or two that happened since they were in the forest. Even making him do a few protection missions, since he'd obviously do his best to take care of every last one of those other idiots. She'd seen that poor little girl enter into one of Jolly's 48hr drills, she probably trained hard all week. However that girl worried her, she was a child of Fortuna. If anything was about to happen to her she wouldn't put it passed the gods to throw Josh in front of the hit. Even if he wasn't trying to, just her luck he took the hit for her.

“Then why are you here?” more of his endless talking, and even the most annoying chuckles. Something akin to what she supposed was an evil laugh? Gods he couldn't do an evil laugh well. Not the maniacal kind anyway. It had none of that evil intent behind it, just a bit of prankster or sarcasm. He'd seemed to give up on that little nugget of annoyance though, and moved on to his normal laugh. Because that was soooo much better. Please read that last sentence with sarcasm, because it was supposed to be there. “I eat all four food groups, and look both ways before crossing the street... and take long naps...” Did she just quote Lilo and Stitch? Yep, would Stone realize that? No probably not, she just couldn't imagine Stone watching that movie.

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Just stop talking. Oh, it was too easy. Way too easy. Almost took the fun out of it. Like kicking a puppy or something. Which, don’t get him wrong, was actually not something that Remus did regularly. Or at all for that matter. He wasn’t demon spawn after all. Just Mars spawn. Which many might argue was about the same thing. Though personally he considered it more a badge of honor, being Roman and all. But that was just his not so humble opinion.

“Why am I here? Isn’t that the question of the ages. Well, you see, when a god loves a mortal…” He started off, fully intending to drive her crazy, as was a usual habit. There was something refreshing about annoying Rhiannon. He cleared his throat though. “While I’m delighted to hear that you’re keeping up with being a good five year old.” Or that she had lost her mind, either worked really. Eating all the food groups and looking both ways? She was mad. Maybe baking her brains in the sun was finally getting to her. Not that she had much to bake in that department.

Then again, he wasn’t here to check in on her nutrition or her road crossing habits. He had been hearing some very disturbing things about Rhiannon Warlow of late and it was high time he looked into them himself. He considered this camp his duty to protect. And if that meant from an internal threat like Rhia then so be it. He wasn’t sure how far he would be willing to go for the cause, but if it meant protecting and possibly saving lives, he imagined it would be a lot further than annoying the girl. “That aside, what are you doing out here by herself? I’m serious. Give me some cock and bull answer and I’ll kick your gut in.” There was one way to get answers, and he usually wasn’t the one to go with the fluffy little cutesy, happy approach. Let Jason deal with that way. If it wasn’t direct, it was bound to fail in his book. Though, of course, he would never tell her why exactly he was hounding her. Some things were best left under wraps. And strictly speaking, she was the last person who needed to know that anyone was on to whatever it was that she was up to in that nasty plotting little brain of hers.

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Notes: gods that sucked

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While Rhiannon didn't normally let the muscle bound, empty headed, child of Mars get to her today seemed to be special. Perhaps from the summer heat, the working out in the sun when she was so obviously a night person, something that just added to the over all annoyance of the day. It let Remus slip a sharp little dagger of irritation under her skin. It was obvious he enjoyed it, perhaps the same glee she pulled from making him throw a punch at her face. That was fun, and normally so very easy. She had a thing about starting fights after all, starting them should be left to the decedents of war and fighting. She did however manage to scoff at his lovely little start of a speech on the birds and the bee's. “Pah, lease. They don't love anyone but themselves.” Perhaps she wouldn't say the same about every god, she was still rather fond of Mercury. Even if she was siding with Saturn, Mercury hadn't harmed him directly and seemed to actually care about the camp and his descendents. That didn't mean she could ever forgive him though, for fluttering from woman to woman. At least the man wasn't married, like most of the other gods out there. Who marries the goddess of marriage and fidelity just to be the one with the most known story’s on not being faithful?

No sense of humor, as per usual for the robo-cop of a Praetor. That coupled with the fact she really could not see this guy sitting down to watch a Disney movie, which was terrible. Everyone needed to watch Disney and Pixar. All their movies, perhaps not the sequels. Rhiannon could have easily done without their sequels. She was only half paying attention to him, caught off in her own half baked thoughts of movies. She really would rather be in a nice cool cinema right now, with Josh preferably. Instead she was out in the woods with Remus, walking talking android. His emotion chip was probably broken, stuck on being an angry prick. Her eyes rolled as she sighed at his question. “I'm making a pretty little bouquet for your father, what's it look like I'm doing?” she said sarcastically. Perhaps laying down and getting antagonized by her favorite Praetor was giving her a boost of energy. Enough to talk and be mildly sarcastic anyway. She truly wished for him to leave right now, and while that kick in the ribs was not appealing there was no way she was going to give him any type of information without a fight. Even if it was harmless, like trying to relax after training.

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OOC: D= sorry it's short

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Remus shrugged at her statement. “I don’t know the gods, so can’t say for sure. But I’m sure you’re wrong because you’re Rhia. And besides, they do a heck of a lot better job than your little friends.” That wasn’t saying much though, seeing as the Titans royally sucked. Wasn’t the last bloody war testament enough to that? They didn’t care about people and didn’t care about using people. Just like they were using Rhia, he was sure. But he couldn’t bring himself to feel sorry for her. Memories washed back, of Orthys. Hyperion and his army had been near impossible to defeat. Even with so many demigods and legacies on their side. He had seen the good and the bad fall in bloody heaps side by side. And the Titan didn’t care that he was killing his own men. He had met his father before, and Mars was a good person. A little rough, but then again, he was Mars. It was to be expected. And it wasn’t as if Remus was that warm and fuzzy either. Or Charlie for that matter. It was in the family. But Mars cared about his kids. In his own strange way. Saturn? The freak show ate his kids. Hardly a caring person in the furthest stretch of the imagination.

He rolled his eyes at her remark. As was per usual, she was completely unhelpful. “Really? I didn’t know you had a thing for him,” he said with a smirk. “Really, I don’t think you’re his type though. Sorry to break it to you. He doesn’t go for short, angry idiots.” Not that he could actually speak for his father’s taste, as he had no idea what it really was, but he hoped to the gods he had better sense than to go for someone like Rhia. Disgusting. What any guy could see in her for that matter, was beyond him. Nasty little imp, she was. He was fairly certain that even if she was on the right side in this whole ordeal, the two of them could never get along. But there was the fact that she was a war monger and a traitor, which sort of made it not just unlikely, but impossible. He was tempted to make true of his offer to kick the wind out of her, but decided not to. It wasn’t worth the effort. Not that it would take much effort. “Being a useless lump as usual it is then. Good to see you’re being a valuable member of this camp.” Harsh? Sure. But that was Remus. He wasn’t a sweetheart. Actually, he wasn’t even sure why he was wasting his time here like this.

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Word Count: 448
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"I don't have friends." she said rather defiantly and with a little disgust. The few people who associated with her she wished wouldn't. Josh was the only mortal she'd consider a real friend, and he was more than just a friend. Saturn she didn't want to admit allegiance to, at least not right now. Everyone else was at best an acquaintance. Stone was somewhat like an enemy, Felicity was a nut case and obviously not her friend, Simons she existed on the same plane with, and Charlie was someone she was on decent terms with. No friends in that batch at all, unless you wanted to count Inek. She counted him, he was her best friend and the sweetest little fox she knew. Someone who'd on occasion go into the infirmary just to cheer up the people who were stuck there.

"Thought I'd give him a little something in return, he did give me a pretty little knife after all" she said with a smirk. Not that she used the knife he gave her much anymore. It was still on her person, as was the knife that Josh gave her while she was trying to train with a weapon in each hand. Originally she used the knife Mars gave her to practice. It was well balanced, amazingly sharp and seemed to stay that way longer than other blades she had used. It was a really nice blade, to be expected being from Mars and all, but Josh seemed to not like the idea of her using it. He got that Simons kid to make her one instead. It was nice, also well balanced and well made as she learned anything that boy did seemed to be well done. He didn't talk, more so than the other forgers, which might have been the reason for his work being better. None of that annoying human contact, and right now it was extremely annoying. "Maybe not little, more like a hunting knife." it was in her boot right now, the one on her right side. The left one had the knife with elegant work etched into it along with her name. It was really girly, and she wasn't that big a fan of it, except Josh gave it to her. It automatically became her favorite. "Har har, like I'm stupid enough to fall for a god. Get stuck raising an idiot like you? No thanks." was she going to comment on the short and angry part? No, she was a fairly angry person, and admittedly a little on the short side. Stone and her had a tendency to call each other stupid or some form of the same meaning, and trying to argue the opposite was a moot point.

To be honest Rhiannon couldn't see a god falling for her either, not that she saw anyone falling for her. The fact there even existed a person who liked her was beyond reason. Which, obviously Josh was beyond reason. Saturn was special, he seemed to see in her all the things other people didn't and appreciated her for it. She accepted her liked her, if even a little bit. Unlike Josh, Saturn could think about it and put it into words. He had the experience to be able to do that, the wisdom to think about why and how he felt. Josh was a bit of a hurricane, and she couldn't predict how he was going to do things. At the very least he was smart enough to not damn his eternal soul. At least that's what she thought. "I've never been a valuable member, just a waste of space and you know it Stone. Kinda like you, except a little smarter." Not that she really thought he was a waste of space, but since when was Rhiannon nice to people? Never, and her tiredness would not allow for exceptions.

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Remus chuckled. “Good. I’d worry about their sanity if anyone called you a friend. They might need extended hours with Robin if that were the case. But thank the gods you don’t actually have any friends. Camp is sane after all.” He smirked. It was true enough. The girl was about as sane as a mad hatter and about as smart as a box of rocks. Not that he was biased.

Though when she opened her big fat mouth and continued, he wanted to punch her. How come she got presents from his dad!? What the heck was that all about!? He never got anything! So what if he sounded like a whiny little kid. It was his dad in question here, not hers. It just made him hate her all the more. He kept it off his face though. Even if underneath it he was wishing she’d go get lost in Tartarus. “More like, just shut the hell up because no one cares,” he snapped, half imitating her senseless prattle. He grimaced, glad for the topic change. “You, a mother? Dear gods that sounds like the worst thing I’ve ever heard. I’d pity the child who had to be raised by you.” That and it was weird to think about anyone he knew not already in New Rome with a family of their own. And Rhia was dead last on that list too. He didn’t even really think of it for himself either to be honest. Though he wondered, now that she mentioned it, if Felicity ever did. Not a topic for deep consideration at this moment in time though. He had Rhia to deal with first.

He rolled his eyes at her continued babbling. “You really are a waste of space. I’m glad you recognize that. Though you forget. I’m a praetor. I’m a heck of a lot more necessary than you are.” He decided not to bother commenting on the intelligence part. Not because he thought she was right, but more like he thought she was so entirely wrong that it wasn’t even worth mentioning. She likely would understand anyway; he knew how big words like the two-syllable kind could confuse her easily, he joked to himself. No, he didn’t like to admit it, but Rhia was smart. Maybe not smarter than him, but not that stupid. Not as much as he usually talked about her as being. She had her use here, her place. Even if she was a pain in the butt all the time. Again, not that he’d ever mention he thought any of this to her. He’d sooner poke a sleeping drakon. “Well, I have better things to do than to talk to you. Unlike your case, people are actually looking up to me for guidance. Have fun wallowing in your own uselessness, Warlow.” With a smirk, he turned and left. True, giving Rhia a hard time was part of his daily recommended diet, but one could only have so much of anything.

Tag: Rhia
Word Count: 500
Notes: couldn’t think of anywhere else to go with this thread, so hope you don’t mind I had Remus exit