#nectarplotdrop

it’s early morning, sunlight is trickling into the valley where camp half-blood lies. sleeping peacefully, except for the few campers who are on border patrol. a boring job, more often than not. except when one of them sees something glistening in the cool morning sun. a sword lies at the border of camp, neatly placed under the gate like someone left it there. why? whose is it?

the first assumptions are that it’s a prank. ‘the hermes cabin at it again,’ chuckles one of the demigods who found the mysterious item. then someone gasps, ‘there’s dried blood on it’. not monster dust, but blood. on a celestial bronze sword, that’s more than suspicious.

border patrol abandons their job to bring this to chiron’s attention, the look on his face speaks volumes. he knows who this sword belongs to. or rather, belonged. as camp wakes up, and campers start crowding the dining pavilion, an announcement is made.

—— CAMP ANNOUNCEMENT

“this morning border patrol found a sword which i know belonged to dexter holt. as you’ll all surely know by now, neither heather mckinney nor aria davis brought this item back to camp. all we know at the moment is that someone placed it under the gate, and if anyone knows more about this or has seen something, we strongly urge them to come forward.

The days after an announcement like Chiron’s about Dexter Holt’s sword were always tense at camp. It’s something that lingers at the back of campers’ minds, eating away at them. As if the clouds that seem to hang above camp more and more frequently weren’t ominous and oppressive enough. However, this isn’t the first time camp has lost one of their own. Yes, these circumstances are seemingly more suspicious than usual, but there’s nothing more to than move on with their lives, right? Not for the Asclepius and Apollo cabins. Their most skilled campers are up to their shoulders stuck within the troubling aftermath. Troubling, yes. Testing blood doesn’t take all that long, but when the results came in, they felt it was needed to test them again. At least before warning Chiron, or the rest of camp. There had to be a mistake there, someone must have swapped the samples. This must be some really bad practical joke. While waiting for the blood results the sword is also tested for finger prints. Also quite a few times. Because these results just don’t make sense. Then finally, 6 days after the sword was found, a decision is made. The results are unwavering, despite the dreadful and illogical scenario they paint. And so, with heavy hearts, they bring their findings to Chiron. The next morning an announcement is made.

—— CAMP ANNOUNCEMENT