Chapter 4
Outside, Erin had to jog to catch up with Nico. She didn’t say anything only because she didn't need to. He stopped suddenly and Erin realized she hadn’t been paying attention. He had led them back up the hill they had come in from, but this time she noticed a dragon, and a very large statue that she wasn’t sure how she missed the first time. The statue looked familiar but she couldn’t exactly pinpoint why.
“Look,” Nico said from the ground next to her, “ you can leave and forget about all of this and your friends, or you can stay and actually have a life. It's your choice.”
“I never said I was going to leave.” The edge she wanted wasn’t there.
“Then I may as well show you around.” He stood and walked back down the hill.
“And finally the cabins.” Nico had already shown her the armory, the canoe lake, the strawberry fields, the dining pavilion, the combate arena and a number of other things she had already forgotten.
“Which ones yours?” She asked. Erin had gotten more comfortable around him in the few hours they’d spent walking through camp.
Without hesitation he pointed to one. It was all black with no windows and had something she couldn’t clearly see hanging above the front door. She had no idea which god it was for.
“Looks welcoming.” She joked. Nico nodded absently and started listing off each cabin down the row.
“You missed one.” Erin pointed out, he hadn’t mentioned who his cabin belonged to.
He hesitated a moment, “hades.”
She couldn’t help but laugh a little.
“What?” Nico asked, looking at her.
“I probably should have guessed,” she gestured to his shirt, “you’ve been wearing a pegasus skeleton this whole time.”
He rolled his eyes and said, “I think we're playing capture the flag tonight, you should join in. I mean you have to have some fighting skills from the amazons.”
Erin knew she did, sometimes in their free time, her and Ara would practice fighting. Erin usually won, so she agreed.