DRAMA LLAMA [ C A M ]

Anna May Shauk usually didn't come to the Euros Creek, something seemed to be beckoning her there.  She had her clown red hair in a fish tail braid.  A blue bow held her bangs out of her eyes, for the first time in well, ever.  It made her electric blue eyes pop even more than they already did.  Her lightning bolt shaped necklace was hanging around her neck, as always.  She would never be able to go anywhere without that thing.

As Anna sat on a rock next to a creek, she picked up a leaf in  her left hand and concentrated on it.  Soon smoke was rising into the air from the leaf as it crumpled to dust.  She had electrocuted the leaf to nothing, something she did a lot, for practice.  It was no secret that Anna was able to electrocute things.  Most children of Zeus were able to.  Anna only wished she could control winds as well.  Or create storms.  That would be pretty amazing.

Anna let the crumpled leaf fall into Euros Creek.  She wasn't as alert as she had been before electrocuting the leaf.  It had been the third leaf she electrocuted since arriving at the creek and Anna was starting to lose her energy.  It was a nasty side effect to using her power, but Anna was certainly getting better an honing her abilities.

Anna May Shauk noticed someone several feet down the creek.  Anna recognized the Demigod immediately as her half-sister Hannah Zadach.  Normally Anna strayed away from human contact, not trusting the other Demigods around her.  Any of them could be your enemy.  Ever since they had told her about Luke and with her past constantly flashing before her eyes, she had trust issues.

Anna didn't stay back.  She knew that whoever, maybe her father, Zeus, wanted her to come here for a reason.  She quietly got off the rock and crept towards Hannah.  Maybe if Hannah wasn't up to anything strange she could just leave her alone and go somewhere else.  Stepping behind Hannah, she saw a razor, and Hannah's blood.  Putting the two together, Anna let out a collective gasp, and then immediately covered her mouth.  If she was planning on leaving, she couldn't anymore.  Hannah had most likely heard her.

She decided she might as well speak, "Erm, Hannah what are you doing?  Erm, I mean why would you do that?  Gah."

Great, Anna thought to herself, Now I'm going to seem nosy and and insensitive.

As Anna May Shauk listened to her half-sister's rambling, Anna found that she could totally relate. Anna didn't have any friends at camp. The only boyfriend she had ever had died after a couple short months of them being together. Anna blinked back tears at the thought. Okay, she thought, maybe, I still haven't gotten over Kit, but he died.

Anna Shauk sat down on the ground next to Hannah. She knew this was going to be uncomfortable for both her and Hannah. Her because she was usually very rude to people she didn't know well and Hannah because someone had discovered her secret. Anna wanted to hug Hannah and tell her that she was beautiful and that anyone who didn't want to be friends with her was crazy, but she couldn't say it. First, because that was so out of character for her, and second, because she hardly knew Hannah.

"Listen, I know we haven't talked much, but I know what it's like. Not having friends. And I know what it's like to lose someone, maybe not my mother, but I cared about him, a lot. Besides, you're beautiful," Anna said, almost choking on her words. It was all truth. Anna was incapable of lying. But Anna hadn''t talked to Hannah a lot, making it hard for Anna to say those words. Anna had to be sensitive around Hannah, though, she was her sister.

Anna May Shauk couldn't help but tense up at those words.  She was trying so hard to be nice to her half-sister, for her sake, and it was already failing.  She wanted so much to say something rude about Hannah being gay, but she knew that wouldn't fly well.  It would push Hannah away from her, and right now they both need a friend.  Just don't say anything about her being gay, Anna.  You're not technically lying if you do.

Anna was incapable of lying, for some reason.  The truth could be horrible, and she would start saying a lie, but would start blurting out the truth.  Anna thought it sucked, especially if she was starting to make friends with someone and it happened, which happened a lot.  She finally said, "Yeah, not a lot of the camper's like that."

After saying that, though, Anna was somewhat okay with her half-sister being gay.  It made her different from other people that Anna had met.  She smiled at her half-sister.  It was a forced smile;  Anna Shauk did not simply smile like that.