[hr][hr] [center][color=#918ABB][h1][sub][i]Erin Maree Chase[/i][/sub][/h1] — [b]۵[/b] [b]۞[/b] [b]۵[/b] —[/color] [img]https://i.imgur.com/0lRCFwO.gif[/img] [b]Location:[/b] The Big House; Camp Half-Blood - Long Island Sound; New York. [sup][b]Interacting With:[/b] Lord Dionysus.[/sup][/center] [hr][hr] This... couldn't be happening... Fuck..! She could already feel it coming on... The thoughts accelerating; speeding through her head so fast that it was almost dizying, and with it, Erin knew that her body had began to sway, if ever so slightly on the spot she stood. The office of the camp director, Mr. D, was spinning. Coming in and out of focus, and all she could manage was to lift her hand up from her side. Using it to rub at her sternum, as though the very action was going to help loosen the tightening she could feel restricting her breathing. She felt sick to her stomach. And it was painful- [i]Gods[/i], it was painful. The rapid, pounding of her heart against her rib cage... the light trembling in her arms and legs; the quickening of every single breath she managed to suck in. Each coming in shallow, making her almost feel as though she were suffocating- and no matter how hard she tried, she just wasn't able to catch it... She was currently caught between a rock, and a severely hard place; and no matter how she attempted to spin it, it just got worse. Erin's dark gaze seeming to lose focus, her head fell slightly; staring at the ground between herself and the desk. The soft sound of her voice barely more than a whisper as she spoke. [color=#918ABB]"..n-no... this can't be happening..."[/color] [color=#FFD700]"..I'm afraid it is, Ms. Chase."[/color] The sound of her name being spoken by the God she normally gave a hard time to pulled her out of the sea of thoughts she was drowning in. Her name... he'd said her name- he'd said it [i]correctly[/i]. Dionysus never got anyones name right..! Well, unless it was one of his kids, but still..! Her hand falling from where she had been rubbing, she brought it together with the other in front of her stomach. Fingers playing nervously with one another as the edges of her figure began to blur into darkness. [color=#FFD700]"..Lady Aphrodite’s dove has been stolen from Mount Olympus by an unknown assailant. Understandably, the other Gods are in an uproar at the crime committed... and Ares, in all the wisdom my thick-headed brother possesses, has named you the guilty party."[/color] Leaning over his desk, elbows resting over the polished top, Dionysus rubbed wearily at his tired features. Already clearly exhausted by the day, and damn it all to Tartarus, the day had only just begun. If this morning was any indication as to how the rest of it was going to go; he was in for a few asprin and a diet coke by lunch, [color=#FFD700]"..Zeus has given you a to the end of the lunar cycle to return the dove to Olympus. Seven days, Ms. Chase. That's it. So I suggest you get a move on."[/color] Seven days- a week. To find a single, stupid pink bird that could literally be anywhere in the world..? Yeah, like that was going to happen. But worse... it meant that she was going to have to actually leave the camp. The very thought caused pain to shoot through her chest again, and unconsciously, she began to rub at the scars on her wrists that she kept hidden with the long sleeves of her tops, [color=#918ABB]"..a-and if I refuse..?"[/color] [color=#FFD700]"..then you will be subject to the wrath of Lord Ares."[/color] Rock and a hard place- right now she felt more like Atlas; the weight dumped on her shoulders her equivilant of the world. And really, it kind of was. It was her life on the line... again... Seriously, what the hell was wrong with her. Fingers twisting together, her emotions for once, clear over her features; all Erin could bring herself to do was nod her head once in response. [color=#FFD700]"..head up to the attic, and get your prophecy from the Oracle. Chiron and I will inform the rest of the camp of the situation."[/color] [color=#918ABB]"..I-I-..."[/color] But the words weren't coming- her mind, at that moment, was failing her. Nodding her head once again, the only way she could think of to let him know that she had both heard and understood what he had said, Erin used whatever energy she had left that she could muster to turn her back to the office. Not even seeming to notice the gentle tears that had begun to fall as slowly, though surely, she headed towards the stair that led to the attic. This-... This was something she never wanted to do...