To Wander
Time Frame: Anytime before the end of The Lightning Thief
Pairing: None
POV: None
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“Because they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it’s better than drinking alone.”
-Pianoman by: Billy Joel
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Being a half-blood, constants in your life aren’t something you can take for granted.
Especially if you’re a son of Hermes.
Luke sits in his bunk—that a luxury in itself since the rest of the cabin is stuffed full of unclaimed kids—and stares at all the new faces. He’s leader of the Hermes cabin, yeah, but some of the kids are in and out so quick he doesn’t even learn their names—traveling, just as Hermes does.
If you’re a child of Hermes, it’s kind of your destiny to be forever drifting.
So Luke is okay with not having a really place he feels comfortable calling home. Because home is where the people you love are. And there are too many variables in the Hermes cabin for that to happen. Kids constantly going in and out, finding out who they are, moving on, getting killed by some monster.
Luke is a traveler on the roads of life, he likes to think. His home is not a stationary place.
But for the rest of them in Hermes cabin—those who are perpetually unclaimed, they are the ones who are forever wandering.
Sure, they are stuck in the Hermes cabin, but they are the ones who are the true travelers…they are the children who are still searching for who they are.
Forever surrounded by a sea of strangers, those who are still searching, but on a different path, or those who have already found where they belong.
And forever strangers to themselves, forever wondering who and where they come from, longing for the past to reassure their future.
Luke guesses for the time being, though, they’re found a place here among the perpetually lost.
They’ve found a home on the road for a while.
And perhaps made some friends among strangers.
~fin~
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