<div align="center"><em>The Big House</em></div><br/><hr/><br/>Abigale was a little upset that he left so quickly. She kept thinking that they should sit and talk about things, but something always kept popping up. Or rather someone always kept popping up. It was starting to be bothersome. Sighing, she supposed they would have a little free time together eventually.<br/><br/>Moving about her small room a bit, she didn't really need to pack as she hadn't had the time to unpack last night. In fact, she removed stuff from her shoulder bag since she wouldn't need it all. This allowed her to slip out of the cabin rather quickly and start off towards the Big House. It didn't escape her attention that something was going on down at the Sound. It had never been blocked off like that before. She wanted, very much, to go investigate...but she didn't. If she really was to go with Vincent and Vanessa, then she couldn't take time to wander around and figure out what those satyr were up to.<br/><br/>It didn't take her long to meet up with Vanessa along the way. The two had never really talked before. It wasn't that she hadn't wanted to get to know the daughter of Hephaestus. The problem was that there were a lot of kids running around here. It was impossible to get to know everyone. The muted greeting was enough to tell her that she may not have wanted Abigale here. Abby wondered if Vincent had even talked to his sister about it. What if Vanessa had wanted someone else to go and was just too shy to say so? Abby didn't want to stand in the way of that, "Hey, Vanessa...uh...thanks for letting me come along. I told Vincent to talk to you about it after he invited me. I know we've never really talked or anything, but I do love the pictures you take," she said lightly, "I've never been any good with cameras...except stealing them," Abigale tried really hard to ignore the theft urges she got whenever she saw something she liked. It had been a while since she stole something and Abby wanted to keep it that way. Though she had been very tempted to steal all those pictures Vanessa had taken of Vincent for other girls last summer and burn them.<br/><br/>"Have you ever met your dad before?" Abigale figured a little conversation wouldn't kill either of them as they trudged towards the Big House, ignoring the smell of wonderful food.<br/><br/>Once there, Mr. D was sitting at the inside table sucking down probably his tenth diet coke for the day. He didn't pay the two girls any attention and simply sat there playing with his cards till Abigale cleared her throat, "Huh...oh, you two. Amelia and Valeria," he commented as he waved his hand a little, "Wait for Vernon and I'll send you all off. I won't be upset if you decide to stay there forever. In fact, I encourage it. Or you could do yourselves the favor of not ending up in a brutal death by throwing yourselves into a forge fire. Either way."<br/><br/>"...just a ray of sunshine..." Abigale said very quietly and sarcastically. She settled down in a chair as far from Mr. D as she could. Abby had never really liked the God of Wine. He seemed like a lazy bum to her, though she knew better than to say that to his face.