Elektra finally made it to the camp proper and was surprised by the enormous amount of activity going on. All around her she saw others walking or running about on their various errands or to simply exercise. As she walked through the camp she was surprised that she encountered no one who wanted to stop her or do more than glance in her direction. Polly had been detailed in her explanation about Camp Half Blood and the layout of the cabins so Elektra had no trouble finding the place she was to call her new home. 

It was like the vacation cabin of Barbie if she'd have been greek. It had a painted roof, with pillars out front and down the sides with a blue-and-white checkerboard deck with steps and gray walls. The cabin, if it could be called a cabin smelled very heavily of perfume which she caught on the breeze. When she stepped inside Elektra covered her mouth to keep from giggling when she saw inner walls of the cabin are pink with white window trim and the curtains and beds pastel blue and green.

"Oh my, so this is where Barbie summers or maybe Elle Woods" giggled Elektra as she walked through the main hall. 

She soon found the section reserved for the children of Peitho towards the rear. She was pleased to see that it was decorated in a more subdued scheme of colors, soft blue and white and indirect light the room specially made for her. The art that decorated her walls showed her mother whispering the secrets of seduction to both bride, groom and lovers. In an alcove set aside for reading were scenes of orators standing among friend and foe alike their audiences listening raptly to their words as her mother hovered above.

As she stood smiling several snow white doves flew in cooing sweetly in greeting as they landed on silver perches. One of her welcoming committee landed on a beautiful alabaster box tapping it with the tip of it's beak as if saying "Look in here" 

Smiling Elektra walked over and held out her left hand on which the dove hopped then with her right she opened the box and found inside a ball of silver twine to which was tied a dark blue silk ribbon that said "To bind them together." 

It was a puzzling gift and Elektra had no idea exactly what it meant, she knew in images of her mother that sometimes she was pictured with a ball of string but there was never any explanation of it's use of meaning.


Peitho’s sacred ball of binding twine could be linked to Tykhe’s ball of fate; the goddesses had the same parentage, and the links between love–or, at least, sex–and chance or fate were extremely strong but that still offered explanation of what the ball of twine represented or it's power so Elektra reached in and picked it up. She felt a tingle of energy flow up her arm and because of it didn't notice as the silver thread wrapped around her forearm till it became a ribbon and cut it's self from the rest of the ball.

She looked at the ball then the ribbon a little freaked out but also curious about it's meaning and or purpose. The doves suddenly took flight and disappeared in mid air which caused Elektra to laugh with delight. She didn't know what was going on yet but she did know now that everything about the camp her aunt Polly had told her must be true.