Lou Almost Breaks My Ribs

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"Uhh, Will sent me to bring you to the infirmary. Sorry.", Lia says. "It's okay. Not your fault he treats me like Nico whenever I use my powers.", I joke. I stagger out of my cabin, leaning on Lia. Good thing that I'm pretty light. We soon arrive. The door opens, and Will is right there.

"Thanks, Lia! There's nothing else for you to do here really, so head back to the cabin, got it.", Will says. Lia pulls off her scrub shirt, revealing her orange tank top.  She jogs out of the cabin. "Do I really have to be here?!", I complain. "Yes. Because I know that you'll do something stupid like using your powers at Capture The Flag today, and you can't even walk!", he says, directing me to a cot.

I sit down. "So, what's new?", I ask Will. "Well, we got a new cabin mate.  Her name's Melissa, she's from South Dakota, and she plays violin.  She came here a day ago.  She's too young to be a medic yet, though.  She's only 10.  It's a good thing we have Lia, or else this camp would be without a head medic because neither Kayla or Austin is any good at healing.", he says. 

The minimum age to work in the infirmary is 12 years old, and the minimum age to train for head medic is 14.  You officially stop being a child here at camp at 11.  You stop being babied, and you aren't protected as much. 

The reason the age to work in the infirmary is 12 instead of 11 that the medics here see the most traumatic stuff you can see, short of Tartarus.  Because watching a friend die is bad, but watching a friend die WHILE you're trying to save them is worse.  Also, 11 year olds still look and act almost like children.  You don't need that type of childishness and irresponsibility in a situation where the life of a friend hangs in the balance of each decision you make.

I stretch, the pain from light traveling almost gone.  "How do you feel?", Will asks me.  "Okay, I guess.  You can set me free now.", I say.  "Wow, since when did you become Nico!", he joked.  "Since you started annoying me!", I reply.

I hear a bit of jostling down the hallway, and see a boy who looks about Lia's age pushing a cart. "Oh hey, Andrew! Leave that cart right there, I have to go with Julia and Connor on a supply run soon.", Will says to the boy. He looks about 14, has dark brown hair and eyes, and a tattoo that marks him as Roman. Lia had said something to me about a couple Roman kids coming to camp to see what it's like here. His tattoo looks kinda weird, like Hermes' staff, but with only one snake. Judging by the lines, he's been at Camp Jupiter for 10 years.

"Oh, no worries! I can summon some of the basic stuff that we need. No need to go ransacking a mortal store if we don't need to. Also, I don't see any injuries on her, why is she here?", Andrew says, gesturing to me. That's kind of weird, since he's not really close to me. "Overuse of powers.", Will answers.

"We don't see that much in Camp Jupiter, usually just spear wounds, occasionally a kick to the head from a unicorn. But I don't see the real bad stuff usually, since I'm not as useful in healing as a child of Apollo. I'm more in the background. Pranjal is a way better healer than me, and I'm more useful for getting medical supplies and healing minor wounds.", the other boy states.

I feel bad for him. It's kind of a thankless job, being a healer. Us fighters get all the credit, but Annabeth would have died a long time ago if it weren't for Will. I'm not even that good of a fighter, compared to Percy or even Leo Valdez. And even Will gets only a little credit for being the best healer. Lia is basically unnoticed, and she's no novice at healing either.

"You're plenty useful, Andrew, and you've only been here a few days. It's gonna be sad when you leave in August, I know that!", Will reassures.

The brunette boy walks over to the cart, and out of nowhere, a roll of bandages appears from thin air. He puts it in the cart, and repeats this until there's enough to patch up the camp for Capture the Flag. I watch intently, because it doesn't make sense. How can someone summon something out of thin air. It has to come from somewhere! Is he accessing some dimensional pocket of bandages?

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