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Timing was vitally important, who was there and what was there could be accounted for if the timing was right. Lance always planned to be in the obstacle course when a majority of people where busy, and those who weren't were not the type to be here anyway. He didn't like people to be around most of the time, and training with another person in fact REQUIRED being around someone. Lance wanted his mind off things, wanted to work up a sweat, and this was the best way for his unique personality to go about just that.

He stayed lurking, hidden until he knew no one was there. A sigh of relieve escaped him as his entire body began to relax. When he became so anti social was a mystery to him, that may not be right. He knew exactly when and why, so what was his real question? Lance didn't know, and he didn't want to dwell on it. That was his reason for being here after all. Cracking was not a sign of a healthy flexible body, but a sign of something that had been misplaced. Lance did not crack as he stretched. He was sure to work on every muscle getting them warmed up for the sometimes unpredictable obstacle course. Calming himself to focus on the objective at hand Lance began, up's and downs he was good at anything that required agility. The strength based obstacle were tough but gave him a good challenge. He needed it, his mind needed it. Sometimes he was able to get away with using his dexterity instead of power, but more often he face planed before realizing he needed to use what little strength he had.

The course succeed in what he wanted, everything he had been thinking about was gone from his mind, only tiredness was left after running the course backwards and forwards. He had gone through the ones that gave him trouble until he could get it right on the first try. For now he lay with his eyes closed basking in the sun, the though about how long it had been and if people would be getting done with their activities was not in mind. The fact he had been in camp for three years without a friend was not knocking in the back of his mind, at least not right now. He smiled broadly as the soft warmth of the sun and the cool breeze that whipped across his damp skin. Times like this where he didn't have to remember anything were the only times he was really happy anymore. Even in his dream visions of his friend getting skewered by a manticore flooded his vision.

[levifaollan]

Cohort training was always more interesting than the stuff he did on his own. Levi was the self-proclaimed lover and not a fighter. He surely loved things other than girls, his love of music and his love of song was one of them. But after the early training with the cohort and then some breakfast, he had a bit of time to himself. This time Levi felt the need to proceed to the obstacle course. It was something he hadn’t done in a while, but it would be a good change from knocking around wooden dummies with his bare hands. Though it was fun, it was always a bad idea. The gods only knew how he could constantly break every bone in his hand over and over again for training and kicks and giggles. He was going to ask Edmund to do some special screws for his knuckles. He wanted them to be anchored into the bone of his knuckles and then to have a cap with the skin back over them. It would make his fists more effective in battle when he didn’t have to use a sword, though it didn’t bother Levi to use a blade at all. But until then, Levi would use his gloves. The Brawler’s gauntlets as he called them. They were supple and flexible leather, the arm guards strapped around with hard steel and there were coverings on the knuckles and on the first half of the finger. They could stop a steel sword or punch a centurion clear across camp.

Levi arrived at the obstacle course and pulled his shirt off. His breath was coming out in a few little whisps as he started to stretch. The air wasn’t really cold but it was colder than his own temperature. He felt the hairs on his skin prickle as he then pulled himself into a starting position. It was strange for someone to not really be on the course, but it was good that he didn’t have to jockey against some of the Mars kids for some time on the course. They were insufferable sometimes. He didn’t know what his mom saw in their dad. It was only as an afterthought that the god of war was a bit of a bully and a jerk. But that was entirely beside the point. Levi knew he was a patron of Rome and to top it off he had good intentions in the noble battle. Levi shot at the course; it was with ease that he breezed through it without a problem. He vaulted over a chest high log without a problem. He had been doing this for thirteen years and it really never got old. His all-time best record happened right after he hit his eighteenth birthday. Levi finished the course without breaking a sweat. He went to walk off his sudden burst of energy, it was always necessary to do so.

Levi tripped. He hadn’t seen where he was going and tripped over something. More like someone. It was some scrawny roman kid, or he looked to be on the scrawny side. Damned that tunnel vision, Levi had a problem where he was only focused on certain things and he ended up with blinders. He only saw what was in front of him, behind, to the left or right, that was debatable. “It’s probably not best for you to be just standing about on the course like some bump on a log.” Levi said as he stood up and brushed off the grass from his pants and hands. It looked like his elbows had dirt and grass on them as well. He brushed them off, his fingers lingering over a tattoo for a brief moment before continuing to get the grass off himself.

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"The amazing Obstacle Course..."

Were the words in Lilith's mind while she was walking from the cohorts to the Obstacle course. she knew it wasn't the best place for her to be, she had plenty of training in Mars fields, the archery fields, where she was one of the best, maybe only some of the Apollo kids were better than she was and Jason Kyoto was much better than she was, but besides that, she thought she had enough training with that.

So why her centurion thought that she needed to go there and train again? She wasn't neglecting her roman activities, it was just that she thought that she should train her voice too. It would help her camp mates maybe even more than her arrows and bow. the only reason they didn't think her voice would be better option than her fighting skills was because Mors had claimed her first. If it had been Apollo, then they would think that her voice and her aiming were the best thing she got, but no... some of them were still waiting for her to develop a new Mors gift and kill everyone with a touch or worse... with her voice.

As she walked to the Obstacle Course, she saw some campers that came from that place, it seemed that they had just finished their training there. As she looked at them, more than half of them looked away from her as if they feared her, others looked at her with hate in their eyes, as if she was about to strike them all with an arrow and kill them all. Maybe it was because of Felicity and what she did two years ago. She believed her it had been a mistake. but she wasn't Pluto's girl! she was only second generation! Mors on a hand, Apollo on the other one!

She rolled her eyes at them and continued walking to the Obstacle Course. as soon as she got into the place, she looked around and noticed that there were only teo guys in that place. She knew one of them, Lance was a nice sweet boy that had talked to her days ago. He didn't seem to be afraid of her. The other one, she didn't really know, she had only seen him playing a guitar but that was all. And in both cases, she wasn't sure which was their goddly parent.

She sighed and walked closer to where they were, "Good afternoon" she said and kept looking at them, "hello Lance" she smiled at the kid then nodded at the older man. She wasn't sure if the older man would be nice or not. She didn't want a party about her being there, she only wanted them to respect her. She looked at some loggs put one over the other so the campers had to climb them. So she ran at them. there she climbed them as if she was a gold medal gymnast, then she grabbed from a rope and climbed it down.

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It felt like a good time to take a nap, but Lance knew he needed to move, to get up and leave before people came. It was so comfy on the ground though, with a heavy sigh Lance was ready to start moving around again. Before his mind finished sending the slow moving signals to the rest of his body a sharp pain came to his side, and Lance's eyes shot open. It was lucky for Lance there was not a knee drop into his stomach, because the male was built to make that kind of thing painful. Heck small girls made it painful. Lance swallowed hard as he began to scoot away, his eyes fixated on the male that was now dusting himself off as if nothing happened.

“S...sorry, I wasn't thinking...” he managed to stammer out. He seemed like a nice enough guy, and was defiantly build to be sturdy. That was a lot more than Lance could say about himself. He was build to be agile and probably shouldn't be hit, the evidence lay in the throbbing on his side. He could easily deal with it, after being around her enough you kind get used to small bruises like this. Didn't mean he liked it, Lance preferred to avoid pain and didn't know many people who liked it. Though they exist.

His eyes caught the other males movements easily, now that he was alert, and the slight hover over his tattoo. One of many, Lance wondered if it had a special meaning, if all of them had special meaning. He liked that about tattoo's, though disliked the ones people get for no reason. The kind that people wish they never got, something permanent should be thought about after all. He wanted to ask, wanted to say what was on his mind but ended up staring awkwardly.

Lance still sat on the ground, his trousers had collected grass and dirt along with whatever loose foliage he had been scooting around on. His eyes fixed on what was in front of him until movement caught his eye. He knew how to make good use out of the heightened movement perception of the “corner of your eye'. There was a familiar walk, form, and Lance turned towards it. Someone he had spoken too days ago, one of the few semblances of conversation he had in three years. Blood rushed to his cheeks as he looked around, he expected more people to pop out of nowhere. They did not and his eyes shifted between the two people who were actually there.

“Hello...again....” he tried to say with at least some confidence, but soon his tone died down into a near whisper again. The realization that he was still on the ground came soon enough and he stood dusting himself off. Leaves still hung in his fluffy brown hair. “I...I didn't think...people....um...” his mind tried to figure out what he was supposed to do now. It darted from apology, to greeting, to introductions, and a check list of what he'd already done. He looked just a bit like a rabbit caught by a fox.

[levifaollan]

The kid stammered out an apology, Levi didn’t really think one was warranted. It was an honest mistake, one that a lot of the new-er kids made. The Obstacle Course wasn’t exactly a place to be idle. The kid was just lucky that it was Levi that had come through instead of a less forgiving Mars kid. “You’re alright there bud. Just don’t make it a habit to sleep on the course; the Mars kids would eat you alive.” Levi said with a laugh. “I don’t want to see a good kid like you to get hurt.” Levi extended his hand to the kid to help him climb to his feet. Undoubtedly, Levi’s tripping over the boy probably hurt the poor kid. To be honest, Levi was built like a Mars kid, but his soul was longing for beauty in everything. “The name’s Levi.” He said with a grin, introducing himself but omitting his godly parentage. People were judgmental, some people more than others, but Levi tried to not be partial to people based on their godly parentage.

The kid looked scared, like it had been a long time since he had actually spoken or really interacted with people. Levi knew quite a bit of kids in the legion that were like that. They came from broken places, broken families, many of them have problems. Levi didn’t have as many problems as many of the people that came in from the outside world. He had been born in the city of New Rome. Sure his dad was emotionally abusive, but Levi had good friends that lived in the same apartment block that he did. Levi also had a little brother to look after. There wasn’t much time for a pity party. Levi knew that everyone was different. People reacted differently to different things. Levi looked up to hear the sound of a female voice. It was Lillith. Levi had heard some talk about this girl, most of it bad, but she cared about Edmund, that was worth more than anything in his book. Besides whether this girl was bad luck, a death sentence or anything else above, Levi didn’t care and he would rather judge people based on actions and the warranted personality they portrayed. Most people didn’t like his sister/niece (whichever it was, Levi wasn’t sure how genealogy worked) Maddi. She had her good qualities along with some of the bad, but there was nothing Levi would change about her.

“It’s okay, kid, we don’t bite unless you ask.” Levi said with a wink towards the younger male. He really looked scared, like the other Romans in front of him were going to draw their swords to chop him up into a thousand pieces. Levi wasn’t mean like that. He turned to the female that had joined the little group. “I’m sorry I don’t believe I know your name. I’m Levi.” He extended his hand to her. He had previously watched her scramble up a rope like she was a monkey. She had skill for sure.

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Lilith half heard what the huge guy and the little kid were talking about while she was climbing those loggs and coming down like a monkey by the rope. She knew that it wasn't that important if she knew about the conversation or not, but it would be rude of her if she didn't at least showed them that she was a bit interested on it, right? After all she had already greeted them and just ignoring them would help at all. So when she came down she walked to where they were and smiled again at Lance.

She looked at Levi, she had overheard when he told Lance his name, but when he asked her her name, she bit her lower lip and kind of blushed. She hadn't realized till then that she hadn't propelry introduced to Levi, she asumed he already knew her name and that had been a very bad attittude from her, she didn't want to be known as a rude girl. She acted as if she didn't care, but she did. She breathed deeply and with a smile on her already red face she said. "My name is Lilith McKinnon, but you may call me Lilith."

She stretched out her hand and held his, then shook it a couple of times and then took it back. She had heard that he was Apollo's Legacy, so maybe he was someone like herself. "I'm sorry... but is Lord Apollo your grandfather by any chance?" she asked and then bit her lower lip again, she regreted her question. How could she have been so dareful! She had just met the guy! She half smiled and then looked back at Lance who seemed to be almost dead out of fear, as if Levi or herself would be able to throw at him one of Jupiter's lightnings!

"he is right Lance, we don't bite." she smiled at Lance and then looked around. "what were you doing out here if you weren't training?" She asked and then looked around again, she thought of how lucky he had been about finding Levi and not any other like Praetor Remus for an instance! that would have been horrible for Lance! Then she looked at Levi and tried to think of his age. He seemed to be old enough to have left the Legion, but he was still there, why would someone liked the Legion so much to stay in it for another 10 years?! for sure he was younger and only looked older.

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He was called a good kid, Lance couldn't look up from the ground. Some how the grass just seems so interesting when your face fells so warm it almost burns. “I...I've seen the Mars kids, they're not so bad...I mean it's not like they are the only ones right? It's not...not a Mars thing. Not really....I mean. Your parentage is...um....it's not nice to talk so generally about people.” while he looked almost apologetic about what he was saying, Lance finally spoke with some clarity. His voice smoothed out, and while it didn't sound accusing it sounded like the last note of what was going to be said about that. While to most people it was obviously a joke, Lance preferred jokes that were not made at the expense of others. There is also the possibility that he didn't know it was a joke, he had been out of the loop for a while.

It dawned on him that this guy liked making jokes, probably because the reference to biting could only be taken as a joke. Lance smiled a bit, with a kind of I can't believe you really said that look on his face. “I'm Lance Nicolas Shade, and I'm not really...well, averted to any versions of my name so....whatever you want to call me is fine.”

Apollo? That would be nice, Lance did sometimes wish he could do first aid. That wasn't the gods only good point, but it was Lance's favorite. Lance didn't really have a favorite god or goddess, just favorite points about each. “What about you...Lillith?” every time he went to say someones name he felt odd, as if he shouldn't say it. He almost felt like he shouldn't be talking to these people at all, talking to anyone. He knew more than anyone, it was just fear talking, and there was also a part of him that said these were nice, mostly honest, people. He was going to focus on that.

“Well, I was training.” he said pulling at his shirt, it still slightly clung to him from his sweat though most had either evaporated or was assimilated back into his skin. “Well I guess it doesn't look like much anymore huh? Maybe I was laying down longer than I thought.” Lance said absent mindlessly, almost as id he were talking normally again. The reason for it being he was talking to himself more than anyone around him. His gaze shifted back to the people who were at least partially paying him attention, because he was having a conversation with them. It was a short step, almost a shuffle really, but at least it was in the right direction.

“So, did you want to sit and chat, or run the course again? Maybe do the...um...group exercise? I can't remember what it was called.” He wondered if he was bothering them, if he was being a nuisance to them. He didn't know what to do with people and especially in this setting. Last time he hung out was with normal non-demi god kids in elementary school. It took nearly all his force of will to not say 'sorry for bothering you, I'll leave' and run full sprint away. He kinda wanted to run through the course again so he wouldn't be able to run away.

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“Well not all of the Mars kids are mean, but a good deal of them are. Remus is alright and Charlie is okay if you don’t make her mad by dropping a bucket of water on her.” Levi gave a small laugh. The mars girls were always nice with a set of claws and some of them had sharper claws then others. “They just take their training a bit seriously and don’t like people to get in their way when they decide to train.” Levi might have joked around a lot, but he wanted this kid to be on his guard if there was ever an altercation with a child of mars. They were never really ones to cross. The kid gave his name and Levi gave the kid a grin. “So Lance it is. Strong name.” Levi remarked as he gently put a hand on the kids shoulder. “I got a good feeling about you lance. I think you are going to be one of my favorite people here.” Levi threaded his fingers together and placed his chin upon them to listen to Lance speak. After he plopped down on the grass of course. You could totally feel the spring trying to come back with a vengeance. Levi loved watching the spring time, the flowers were beautiful, the plants were in bloom and the morning sunrises were pure perfection.

Then came the talk of his parentage. His ears blushed and he could feel the heat radiating off of them. He normally didn’t like to talk about his parentage. But there wasn’t any real harm in it to be true. “I’m a legacy of Apollo, yes. Son of Venus as well.” Levi admitted. He stretched his arms above his head and he listened to his joints pop. His spine was bowed like an Apollo kid at the archery range. He slumped forward and shook out his arms and legs. “Ahh that felt so good. Nothing feels better than some good stretching. Except for a bit of boxing.” Levi gave a few short jabs with his fists. He paused as he ran his fingers over his knuckles, pausing briefly as he pondered over his constant battle. Levi wanted to use some bolts to screw them into his knuckles, anchoring them to the bones. He would have Edmund make them and maybe have his buddy Jason help him in their placing. Levi blinked and brought down his mind back to the earth.

“Training huh? That sounds like you were trying to be productive today.” Lance’s shirt was still a little bit wet from the sweat. That was one of the reasons Levi always did a majority of his training shirtless. He absolutely detested the feeling of wet clothes on his skin. It was creepy and such a massive ick factor for him. He hated it. Lance presented a few options for them to do. “I’m always up for hanging out. Taking a break or whatever. But either or is fine with me. What about you Lilith?” Levi looked up at the other legionnaire that was hanging out with them.

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Lilith looked at Lance and noticed that he wasn't really comfortable with Levi making some jokes about some stuff. She sighed and half smiled at that. Maybe he was more serious about being a roman than others that she had met. Then she looked at Levi, he was for sure an amazing example of a roman, very much alike to Alistair, but Levi seemed to be a lot happier than Alistair was, still both of them had the aura of being men of honor. Her mind went away for some seconds, she was just remembering some moments, in fact very few moments when she had talked to other legionaries. She considered those few her friends, at least in a level avobe the others who never talked to her and several levels avobe the ones that cursed her every time they saw her.

Suddenly her mind was brought back to real time and space when Lance asked her about her goddly heritage. He bit her lower lip and for a moment she regreted asking Levi about his grandfather. She sighed and knew that if Levi had told them about his heritage, she should do it too, simple manners. "Well, on my mother's side, Apollo is my grandfather, on my father's side, Mors is my grandfather. I'm also Mors' legacy." she said fearing the rejection from Lance and Levi, it had happened to her before. People talked to her in a nice fluid way, until they knew about her goddly heritage. "and yours... Lance?" she doubted because she didn't know if Lance was going to talk to her again or not.

Lance also told them he had been training before taking a break, which was the moment when Levi tripped with him. Lilith half smiled at Lance and then looked at Levi. Gods!Hhe was so tall! she had to force the angle her neck had to make only to be able to see his eyes! She heard Lance asking them if they wanted to have a seat and chat or have a groupal training. She looked at Levi. For her it was the same, in fact she didn't want to train at all. Her centurion sent her there, but she wanted to go to the forum and practice her songs.

When Levi asked her what she thought about it, she sighed and smiled at him. "well... cousin..." she grinned. "may I call you like that?" she then sighed againa and said. "I don't like this stuff, but mainly is because I do them always alone. but with you two, maybe I'll enjoy them."

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Lance had not caught the apprehensiveness about the girl and her heritage, nor the awkward level of pink in Levi's ears when they spoke of their heritage. He only thought about how interesting the combinations where, and how they were each difference from their parent. He also searched for the family resemblances, and wondered things such as if the tattoo’s came from a love of beauty or perhaps the artistic side that came from Apollo. Of course more than likely it was a combination of the two. A lovely pairing. Apollo and Mors on the other hand was a little awkward for Lance to think about. Mostly because Lance couldn't see a daughter of Apollo with a son of Mors easily. All people where different, and he was after all the son of the goddess of truth, and the grandson of the god of trickery.

“Well my father is a son of Mercury while my mother is Veritas, goddess of truth. I think I take more after my grandfather in abilities though. I mean, I'm pretty good at agility things. Running, jumping and...and what not....um...what about you guys?” Lance said with a bit of unease. He was still unsure if he was doing this conversation thing correctly. It was almost like a game of catch, but with three players he wasn't sure what kind of order to go in and ended up only speaking when directly spoken to. It was almost as if the two people in front of him knew this, since they seemed kind enough to keep him involved.

“People may be arriving soon, so....maybe we should move so we're not directly at the end of the course? You know the whole...tripping...thing. Then we can just....chat?” he said trying to use his words carefully. Lance wanted to get back into the swing of things, talking normally and hanging out with people. He wondered if he paused to much while speaking, or if he was supposed to stand or sit, or twirl in a circle. The last one might have been interesting, and he wondered a moment if he should do it and tell them his reasoning, but later. He would let the weird slightly crazy side come to more fruition after people knew him.

Lance leaned against a tree, and some how it made him feel more in control of himself, more grounded. Looking up into the branches he knew why, if he needed a quick escape because he did something stupid the tree would offer the best route. He had been using them since child hood after all, though it would have been a multitude times better in a thick forest. “Lillith if you want we can...um...practice or spar whenever you want. I...don't have sparing partners...really. Maybe the three of us can...well games can be training, or...well. I'm sorry I have no idea what I'm trying to say. I'm just going to stand over here now....”

Lance wanted to be with them more, talk with them more, but he wasn't sure exactly how to express it and felt the need to make a kind of reason for meeting. He would have made up any excuse for seeing these people again, because he wanted to be friend with them. These people seemed like good people, and though he hated relying on a gut feeling, he felt like they were trust worthy people.

((OOC: hey Lillith if you start going baddie lance will have a gut feeling about it but not pay attention to it. Fyi.))

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Lance spoke about his godly heritage. Levi knew better than anyone how one could take after their grandparents more than their actual divine-parentage. “I totally get you dude, I’m more like Apollo then a typical Venus kid.” He shook his head. “I’m not petty or vain or into getting people together and then breaking them up. I see beauty in other things. Places people wouldn’t expect. Like that warm feelings of a hug or a laugh or a smile, those things are beautiful to me.” Levi said with an affirmative nod. That’s where the real beauty was in things. It wasn’t in looks or dress, that was trivial, real beauty was something that came from small things. “Apollo and Mors, nice.” Levi addressed Lilith as she talked about her heritage. Everyone here had some interesting divine parentage. “That makes you my cousin… I think. I’m not quite sure how that goes. I’ve never really kept up with that sort of thing.” Levi said with a shake of his head. He wasn’t much for remembering trivial things like that. He always tried to focus on things that mattered. Who your family was, that was always on the back burner when it came to things like your spirit, your will and your inner beauty and strength. That was what mattered.

“Let’s hang out then, over this way though, I think I see the first Cohort is coming through and we really should stay out of their way.” Levi said with a sly grin before moving a good fifteen feet away from the obstacle course. “Sparing? Alright, that sounds like it would be fun. But I’m not exactly training in the conventional way.” Levi waited for the strange looks. Levi did boxing. His hand to hand combat was the best thing in the world. But he was also pretty fair with the bow. Levi preferred the bow, but he needed to be good in case his opponent was going to get up close and personal. “I box, see?” Levi showed the two the scars on the knuckles and the disfigured bone breakage. “I’m plotting and scheming on something that will keep me from breaking anything else.” Levi gave a laugh. He was trying his best to get along with the other people here. Most of the time he says “Of course games can be training. Have you ever played dodgeball?” Levi laughed again. He remembered playing dodgeball with some of the mars kids in his apartment block. More like they were throwing weighted medicine balls around. Levi remembered cracking ribs doing stuff like that.

“So Lance, I’m gonna see you around after this right? I have another ten years in this legion and I’d like to think I left it with a few friends.” Levi gave lance a playfully light punch on his shoulder. This Lance kid was someone who was pretty decent and Levi felt that he could really take this kid under his wing. Thirteen years in this legion, that’s what Levi was doing. He was the oldest guy here and he had plenty of advice to give to some of the younger kids. It was hard to integrate yourself into the Legion. “Just say what you want and take your time doing it.” Levi encouraged Lance. He didn’t want to come off as that grizzly old veteran that was yelling ‘get off my lawn’ while waving a shot gun in the air.

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Lilith looked at Lance while he was talking about his godly family members, Mercury was one of them, she smiled and then sighed. She didn't know if that was good or not, she have met other Mercury kids, and all of them were thieves and trouble makers, so would Lance be like that too? Then he talked about Veritas. Lilith frowned for a second and then got her usual smile again. It was kind of difficult for her to imagine the kind of gifts that his mother had given to him. What if he had the ability of seeig the truth in the soul and mind of the people?! If that happened, then he would know about her, about Mors' plans and how he was using her!

Then He talked how he got more gifts from Mercury than from Veritas, so Lilith sighed out in relief and smiled a bit more at him. If Veritas hadn't given him some gifts of her own, then he wouldn't know about her, just like other campers. She felt a bit more comfortable. Then Levi also told them about his ancesters. Apollo and Venus. Lilith smiled at him and nodded when he said they should be cousins. "you have amazing goddly family members, beauty, truth, communication, the sun! Mine are the Sun, who i love and also... Angel of Death" she shrugged.

Lilith looked at the entrance and nodded at Levi, more people were coming, maybe the guys of the fourth cohort. She frowned and then looked back at Lance and Levi. "I agree, we should move..." she really didn't like to be with others, most of the people in camp didn't like to be with her either, so she looked around to see where they could move. then looked at Lance and smiled. "I'd love to be your partner, I haven't had a partner... well ever!" she smiled and blushed in a shy way. Then she looked at Levi and looked at his knuckles.

"you really train with you bare hands, right?" she asked and then walked a bit closer to him to check his hands. then she looked up and smiled at him. "I'd love to have your spirit, cousin." she sighed and then looked at his hands again, then at hers. Her hands were delicate and soft. Maybe her hands reflected her spirit, maybe that was why Mors was being able to blackmail her, the reason why she was going to become the worst side of herself. "I'd love to train with you two." she smiled and looked at them.

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“It's not like death is a bad thing, people need to die....though it can seem...unfair at times...” Lance said trying to make things seem a little less bad when Lilith seemed to not be too impressed with half of her parentage. Despite his best intentions his voice shook, though barely, when he poke and trailed off to a low tone. “I'm sure Mors isn't as bad as people make him out to be, since his job is automatically something people find unpleasant they probably make up things. Everyone has a good side, don't you think?” he said after collecting himself, with his unusually optimistic outlook on people. His voice was so sincere, and he spoke what he truly believed. He knew people had a good side, because everyone has a bad side. Anyone can be coerced into doing anything, and sometimes those things you feel you can never take back. Lance would have never thought he would leave someone behind to die, and he did. People can never really know what they will do, but Lance knows he will try his hardest to make sure it does not happen again.

“Of course we'll see each other Levi.” he said so happily his smile could blind Apollo himself. “I'm not sure if I'm staying over my required time, but...I know I want to be able to protect people...I...need to get better though...” he said very glad to have people to help him, he was already weak and could barely keep himself alive in a serious fight. He needed more training, and to be able to do more than just dodge attacks, at least that's what he thought he needed. Lance wanted to be like the children of ares, except a little less angry. He wanted to be able to fight well and take blows well if needed, because that was the only way he could see someone protecting others. Dodging attacks would help no one but yourself, perhaps because he hasn't seen some other Mercury kids fighting to protect.

Lance looked at his hands, a few soft calluses her and there from trees more than his weapons, but not a scar or broken bone had happened and it showed. He looked at Levi's hands and smiled, that was what he wanted to be able to do. Train to that point, and be able to stand such pain. Though he would rather not get himself hurt, that would drag down anyone who wanted to help him. He hoped people would want to help him anyway, and suddenly he felt bad for the assumption he would drag anyone down. “That's impressive...I don't...fist fights are not a forte...my forte, not my forte. They can be a forte...I mean...yes.”

The tree was looking better and better with every passing word from his lips, every messed up statement he spoke. Lance's ear regained the pink hue he could so often be seen with, along with the warm sensation that spread across his face. “I...I hope we can all....um...be....on friendly terms....” he looked at them hoping he wouldn't get shot down, though he had wanted them to be his friends, he though it might be too soon for such things. He could not remember how long it took for people to actually become friends.

“If...when...uh....during training I'd want to try....I don't really know. I'm no good at the things I want to do. I can't take hits well, or...or hit hard. All I can do is use bows and smaller bladed weapons. I suppose I can throw pretty well too. Maybe. Then....then there's climbing. It's not very useful, except for running....and I don't want to do that...” He had started well enough, with near full sentences and pleasant speech but soon regressed to his stammering when speaking about himself. He could almost kick himself, well it was entirely possible but he would rather not do it in front of people.

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"I think it's interesting when you say that Lance. I feel like I get more abilities from my grandfather then from my mom...." Levi mused out loud. He looked at Lilith. "But kiddo is right, death isn't a bad thing. It's a natural progression of life. There are three things that are certain in life, you're born, you die and somewhere in between you play taxes. The only thing that's different is how you choose to live your life." Levi said with a nod of his head. Lance once again spoke, saying that everyone has a good side, even death. Levi nodded in agreement. This kid was smart, no, smart wasn't the right word, this kid was wise beyond his years. "Even death can be good. Without it, we wouldn't appreciate life. But even in our last days death can be a welcome sight. But to those with the spirit, Death is the next great adventure. Think about what kind of things we can get into in the Underworld." Levi flashed a grin as he picked up a strand of grass. Levi put it between his thumbs and blew, playing a tune and nodding his head back and forth in time with the music.


"Of course I'd love to train with you kiddo." Levi affectionately ruffled the top of Lance's hair. Levi really liked this kid and felt like he needed to look out for him. Levi turned his attention from Lilith and focused intently on Lance. "I'm not gonna sugar coat it, Lance, this training will be hard and intense. You'll be in so much pain at the end of some days you won't want to get up for training in the morning. But I will show you everything I know. But the boxing stuff, it doesn't just apply to fist fights.... but I think I can adjust the training style to adapt to daggers or even fist weapons, have you thought about those?" Levi asked as he watched the little blond headed boy in front of him. "You both are my friends, you can come to me about anything you want. Even if you just want to hang out. I'm here." Levi flopped down in the grass after he stretched his arms and hands to rest behind his head. The sun felt nice as it filtered in through the tree branches and their leaves, speckling the grass with small patches of sun.


Levi wished there was something he could do for Lance. He didn't seem comfortable talking to people. "Just take it slowly buddy, one step one word at a time alright? Take a slow deep breath alright." He looked up at Lilith as she commented about his knuckles. "yeah bare knuckles. It hurts, but it makes you stronger." Levi ran his fingers over the scars, thinking about the times that he acquired them. They were memories that he loved and cherished. He didn't want to loose memories like that.

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Lilith smiled at Lance and then at Levi and smiled a bit more at them. They were right in all of what they just said about her grandfather, but none of them had her nightmares, none of them had felt the panic she had felt in her dreams for two years! So she only wished that their words were real, she was going to try to think of them as real words, but she knew that at night, the god would come again and would scare her once more. "I really want to think that he is not that bad, so I'll believe on your words about him." she winked at them and then looks at Lance then back at Levi as they talked about training.

Lilith had always trained alone, but Levi had tons of experience, he had already served in the legion for ten years and he was serving his second service, so if she wanted to become stronger, faster, better in a battle field, then she would have to stay close to him, learn from him and give more than she had ever given in trainings, no matter she was 5th cohort. She would have to push herself more than ever and work as hard as the ones in the first cohort. then she looked at Lance and smiled at him. He wasn't that experienced in War, still he had a great warm heart, she would learn a lot from him too, she would learn to be human again instead of a corpse alive, always separated from the living ones. "It would be a pleasure and honor to train with you two" smiling at both of them.

Then Lance asked if while they were training he could also try some of the various stuff that he wasn't good at. Lilith frowned at Lance and then looked at Levi, maybe she should also asked for Levi's permit to improve her lacking skills. She bit her lower lip and sighed, she was almost a perfect archer, and her skills with her scythe were very good too, still she wasn't that good with a sword, she still kept losing it in a combat. Then Levi told her that indeed he fought and trained in a barehand stile, so she smiled and looked at her hands, so smooth, no roman hands at all!!

"I also need to improve so many stuff from my fighting style and my sword fighting style." then looked back at Lance and smiled and then at Levi. "Could you help us with that?"