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ROSALINDA
You know, I'm in the area only for a short time, I don't have the time for all of that.
ARCHIVIST
Recording it directly will actually be quicker than if we told you to write it down.
ROSALINDA
Whatever you say, Jonas. When do I start?
ARCHIVIST
I'm not- Whatever. Right. Statement of Rosalinda Morales regarding...?
ROSALINDA
A children's summer camp I attended in Long Island, New York.
ARCHIVIST
Statement taken direct from subject, 12th July, 2017.
Statement begins.
ROSALINDA
Are you sure this thing even works?
ARCHIVIST
Yes, I'm sure. Begin, please.
ROSALINDA (STATEMENT)
Well, alright.
So, as you know, I'm the Rosalinda Morales. The perfect model, famous all around the globe. Well, I wouldn't have that if not for my mother. I don't mean that whore that got with my dad. I mean my real mother. She's an actual goddess, you know. The Greek one, all about love and beauty. I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. We were always advised not to speak about it, though. Well, I was never the one to follow instructions.
There's many of people like me. Half-bloods. Half human, half gods. Demigods, you'd also call us. Half of them aren't as fortunate as me, though. And also, they just aren't in general, I've seen many kids get killed, you know. But that just happens.
ARCHIVIST
I don't think that just... happens?
ROSALINDA (STATEMENT)
Well, it does in that world. Well, anyway, the camp. They called it Camp Half-Blood, really creative, don't you think? It had the cabins, bathrooms, a tent where we ate. It was all deep in the forest. You'd just assume it's a casual summer camp for troubled kids, but no, the whole story goes so deep. We had the normal activities for a camp, like archery or kayaking. You then turned around to see kids fighting with real swords and climbing this stupididly tall climbing wall with real lava on the bottom. Pretty drastic, don't you think?
Anyway, from the start. I found myself there for the first time when I was eleven. I was confused, the whole situation was... weird. I was placed in Cabin 11. They put all the new kids there. There were 12 cabins, when I joined and 20 when I left. Crazy, huh? Anyway, everyone started in 11 and then got placed in a different one, when they learned about their real parent. Well, around a week after I came, I was placed opposite of 11, at Cabin 10. At the time there was... seven of us. Half-siblings by our mother.
ARCHIVIST
Names, please.
ROSALINDA (STATEMENT)
Doesn't matter, they're all dead. [sigh] Helena MacGregor, Celeste Dumont, Lily Sinclair, Evangeline Miller, Philip Sterling and Conan Sterling. And me. Five girls, two boys. Sometimes, some campers were sent on these... missions. I never had one, I wouldn't even accept it if I was given an opportunity, though. However, my siblings, well, it took two missions to kill them all. First, Celeste got it. When you're going, you're allowed to take two people with you. Helena and Evangeline really, really wanted to go, so she took them with herself. Only Helena came back and she succumbed to her injuries soon after in the camp infirmary anyway. Few months later, Philip got another one. Conan immediately volunteered, they were twins, they were always next to one another, so of course they had to go together. Then Lily, poor Lily, agreed when they asked her to go with them. All three never came back. And that's how I ended up alone, became the cabin counselor and had to be the one to introduce the newcomers to cabin 10 to all the rules and... stuff. Literally like two months after I became the counselor and started to get used to living alone in the cabin, this girl came. She was ten. Her name... ugh, despised it. Daphne Everleight. Yeah, just like that Everleight, the actor. She was so annoying, tried to follow me everywhere, can you imagine?! Anyway, two years later another two boys came, they were also stupidly annoying. Some no-names, Ryan Bell and Kenneth Regan. No idea what my mother saw in their fathers. Anyway, well, I was strict, I had to. They had to learn discipline one way or another. Yeah, tears might have been shed but who cares? I had to live through the deaths of my siblings, so they could have dealt with some... punishments.
ARCHIVIST
Can you tell me something more about other cabins? Their members?
ROSALINDA (STATEMENT)
I mean, if you insist. So, as I told you, when I came there, there were only twelve. You can only so imagine which twelve, you're supposed to be the smart one, so go figure. Well, some of them were empty at the time. I left in 2014, and by then they expanded to having 20, with plans of even further expansion, so I can't be sure how many it's now. Everyone went to eleven first, as they were so-called the travelers, and their place was assumed there. From there, when your real parent claimed you, you were welcome in the cabin that was dedicated to them. Well, not everyone had a fortune of having a cabin, so many were just left in eleven for their whole stay.
ARCHIVIST
Any names?
ROSALINDA (STATEMENT)
Oh, there were too many to even name them all. I'm not even sure I remember all of them anymore. I remember this one time, it irritated me dearly, this one guy, Thomas, he was already out of the camp, but he decided to come back with this little girl, I don't remember, might have been Clementine? She was annoying. Like, so annoying that it was unreal. Then, well, cabin 7 was always weird. Half of them were medics and so they helped in the infirmary. Yeah, crazy, I know. I remember that the ones in the infirmary were Clara Jackson, Rowan Grant and Max Lopez. I spent quite a lot of time in there with the stupid little whining siblings of mine, so I got used to the names, you know? Clara left, Rowan died, and Max was eventually the only one working in there.
Oh! I haven't mentioned the camp directors yet. You'd never believe it, though. One of them was Chiron. Like, you know, the Chiron, centaur, horse legs and all. The other one was, well... let's just say it was one of the twelve. We all called him Mister D.
ARCHIVIST
Is that all?
ROSALINDA
Yeah. Yeah, I think so?
ARCHIVIST
Alright. I'll contact you if we'll need more information on anything, or would suspect this... camp to be connected to any of the investigations that we currently have going on.
ROSALINDA
Contact my manager, I never pick up the phone.
ARCHIVIST
Right. [Sigh] Statement ends.
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ARCHIVIST
Well, that was... interesting. Miss Rosales mentioned some of the children that we know of to be connected with different statements. It might be worthy to actually plan out a work trip to America. I'll need to talk about it with Elias before taking any more steps about it. For now, we-
[SOUND OF DOOR OPENING]
MARTIN
Are you finished?
ARCHIVIST
Do you need something?
MARTIN
Uh, yes, actually. Just, don't hate me?
ARCHIVIST
What are you talking about, Martin?
MARTIN
I'm sorry.
[RUNNING]
ARCHIVIST
[Fading out] MARTIN! Martin!
MARTIN
[Breathing heavily] Nobody can know. I'm sorry, Jon.
[SWISH, SOUND OF SOMETHING BREAKING]