Ebony Wings: Chapter 16

Chapter 16

Christopher

Adrian helped him down from the horse. The blacksmith's big hands and strength was more than enough to carry the slender Christopher.

"Thanks." Christopher stretched, somehow the lack of movement from his legs for a few minutes made them stiff.

"You're welcome." Adrian slapped him on the back.

"Oof! Stop doing that." Christopher scowled.

Adrian gave him a wide grin. The two of them walked towards the stables, Christopher pulled on the reins, leading Arcadia back.

"Hey Cecily." Christopher greeted the child of Aphrodite.

"Hello Chris." Cecila grabbed the reins from him and lead Arcadia back to the stables. "You know, we used to only have Pegasi in these stables."

"What happened then?" Christopher asked.

"Cecelia happened." Adrian said with pride. "She demanded that normal horses be kept in the stables."

"Took a while and also help from the Poseidon cabin; but we managed it." Cecelia fed Arcadia a carrot. "Was able to bring Arcadia here from my Grandfather's place too."

"You've known Arcadia for a long while huh?"

"Yup." Cecelia turned and smiled at him. "You're doing well with the Horseback riding by the way, are you sure you've never done this before?"

"No. We didn't have a lot of horses back home." Christopher smiled nervously. "Whose your friend by the way?"

The boy was sitting in the corner of the stables. He was wearing a beanie and the normal Camp Half Blood T-shirt. He was asian, Christopher was familiar with them, there were a lot of chinese back home. Which meant he has black hair and brown hair. Around his neck, he wore a sharktooth necklace.

"Hey." He stood up and held out his hand. "Zeddrick Lee. Son of Ares."

Christopher frowned at him, not taking his hand. "Son of Ares?"

Zeddrick noticed the scowl. "Not a being fan of children of Ares huh?" He put his hand down.

"Zed." Cecelia spoke up. "He's the one that broke Jeremy's nose."

"Oh. That's explains a lot." Zeddrick smiled nervously. "I'm sorry that you had to go through that and I'm sorry that I'm related to such idiots."

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