Zachary sighed again as the other cabin leaders gathered up their new wayward brothers and sisters and guided them towards their assigned cabins.  No one carried the brand of his father this semester, just like all the last.  He shrugged his shoulders lightly, dismissing it as nothing but another part of him wished that for one summer, he could stop being the only person to carry the Earthshaker's stigma of blood.  His dark eyes took on a stormy appearance and his features darkened as he started to turn around and re-enter his cabin.<br/><br/>He felt the eyes of Liddy upon him and he stopped in his track, returning the stare.  He raised an inquisitive eyebrow and shook his head, muttering under his breath as he broke away from the Child of Athena and headed into the calm, cool depths of the Poseidon cabin.<br/><br/>Running his hands underneath the cool waters of the sea water foundation that sat near the back of the cabin always helped to calm him down.  He relished in the splash of salt-tinged water upon his skin and he sighed heavily as the anger welling up, the bittersweet yearning for kinship, started to recede like a low tide.  Zachary sank to his knees and placed his head under the water's surface, embracing the salty depths for the only peace he could often find.<br/><br/>In his Father's world: the ocean.<br/><br/>"Why do you make it so that I have to be here... alone?"<br/><br/>His whispered words might have reached his father's divine ears but he was never certain.  Poseidon was an absent parent at best, having broken his mother's mortal heart all those years ago.  That resentment had never died and he carried it like the unasked for burden he had been to her.<br/><br/>"Why?"<br/><br/>No answer came and for a long time, he merely knelt there, his head beneath the miniature waves of the flowing fountain.<br/><br/>Soon, dinner was called and he had little need to be ushered along by the harpies.  Gathering up his leather jacket, Zachary left his cabin under the cloak of darkness and headed down towards the pavilion where dinner was being served.<br/><br/>