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.
secondly, as camp director i would’ve liked to keep this a secret until we’d have more answers to avoid useless speculation, but as always news and rumors alike spread fast through camp. as some of you might have heard there was blood found on the blade. as this is a celestial bronze sword, it can only hurt demi gods, gods and monsters. since there’s only one of those categories who bleeds, we’re treating this very seriously. the apollo and asclepius cabins will be assessing the dna to determine if it is anyone we know of. hopefully we’ll have some answers soon, i’ll let you know when we do. i’d like to remind you all that if anyone needs any support around these dreadful events, we have a grief support group meeting every wednesday afternoon. but for now, enjoy your breakfast”













