<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/9a/Duke1.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Duke Parker. (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=207204.msg10249160#msg10249160)<br/><strong>Cabin:</strong>Athena.<br/><strong>Location:</strong>The Lake.<br/><strong>Date/Time:</strong>September 21st, 4:32 Free Time.<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Lux, Open.<br/><strong>Notes:</strong>Tank, Pants, and Chain. (http://imageshack.us/a/img841/6607/8dqqv.jpg) Uniform Taken Off temporarily.<br/><hr/><hr/><br/>When blonde locks left the water and hands elegantly rose up to comb her hair to the side, Duke's vision cleared and finally the mystery of the Lake's mermaid was revealed. While she lacked the...fishier parts of the creature, she certainly had the beauty. It made him crack a small smile to himself, laughing at his own delusion. Had the pain gotten that bad, or did his mind just snap before starting to hallucinate? He gave up on trying to find an answer almost as quickly as he'd thought up of the question, hands returns to rub at his temples in another attempted to sway the pain from his head. The calmness of the water usually helped, but today was busier than usual and the noise level was just a pitch higher. One pitch high enough to keep a constant sting poking at his mind that chain reacted all other levels of pain. Suddenly though, as he looked up from the water, he found the blonde popping a seat next to him on the deck. He'd tilt his head upwards and raise a curious eyebrow.<br/><br/>He and Lux weren't exactly best friends, but they were quite familiar. Jamal and Chester were better friends with her than He, or so he'd always thought, simply out of circumstance. They seemed to have more classes together, and he was pretty sure she'd tried to flirt with Jamal a few times. Too bad that guy's a complete ditz, but either way, they hadn't had many chances at one on one interaction. So seeing her initiating conversation was un-expected, but actually quite nice. Her voice did not add to the pain, oddly enough, and he couldn't detect if that was coincidence, or a trait of a healer such as she. He'd noticed her in the infirmiry more than once, and he was sure he saw her using her abilities to heal the wounds of those who couldn't heal themselves. Actually, he didn't need to be sure. He remembered it all. Hell, he remembered too much.<br/><br/>"Hey." He tied to respond quickly, and avoid an awkward delay due to his thoughts. That tended to happen, when so many rushed in at once, that'd he'd forget to speak when spoken to. Not this time though. She asked him if he was in pain and flashed him a wide smile. It was pretty, granted, but his thoughts could not quite head in<em>that</em>direction yet. He only offered a smile of his own and let his feet sway at the water beneath them lightly. "Ah, just a headache." He tried to brush it off, before another piercing sinus attack struck.<br/><br/>His hand flew up to pinch the bridge of his nose quickly, squeezing tightly to try and suppress the pain around his eyes. His cards were flushed, really, because no regular headache would cause a man as towering as he to act like this. In terms of build, Duke was larger than both Jamal and Chester. He stood at an astounding 6'5, and his muscled body was by no means over bulky or bulbous, but the steady flow of toned and worked muscles added to his weight significantly. He turned towards her and flashed her another smile, this one a more annoyed one than anything else, but not directed at her. More so, that he couldn't handle that on his own. "A particularly nasty headache it seems." He added with a bit of a shrug from his shoulders. There were more rumors in this camp than there were Demi Gods, and a rather popular one among the Apollo kids were his headache pains. Some would say that he'd stayed an entire night in the infirmary screaming in pain because of them, some others denied it, but that's how rumors work.<br/><br/>"Really, I'm just not having a good day." He chuckled, though it wasn't very happy.