<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Duke's Post</div><div class="spoiler_body"><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.<br/></div></div><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/26/Lux1.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Lux Delos (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=207204.msg10217464#msg10217464)<br/><strong>Cabin:</strong>Apollo<br/><strong>Location:</strong>The Lake<br/><strong>Date/Time:</strong>September 21st, 4:30 Free time<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Duke, Open<br/><strong>Notes:</strong>Wearing blue swimsuit (http://xaxor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/lina-posada-sexy-pics-irgus-swimwear-part5-19.jpg)<del>and cutoff shorts, camp t-shirt hanging from back pocket</del><hr/>It wasn't until she was sitting next to him and really looking at him that Lux truly noticed just how<em>big</em>Duke really was. Sure, she'd been around him plenty of times before over the years and she'd noticed he was one of the taller campers but, well, admittedly she was usually somewhat distracted in one way or another when she was around him so she'd not paid as keen attention to the handsome demigod as other girls at camp no doubt had. Sitting beside him now though, she was able to notice that his presence was quiet but loomed large, though it hardly made her feel diminished in any way to have his attention on her now. Actually, she supposed a girl could get quite spoiled were they to gain Duke's attention in truth but at the moment Lux was too distracted by his obvious discomfort to ponder it further, the urge to soothe being far stronger than any other urge she might have felt as an unattached young woman.<br/><br/>Hearing his words, her smile became slightly chiding and she shook her head. He didn't try and lie outright, which earned him a few points, but he did try to down play the pain he was in, which she found to be rather foolish considering her own strengths. "If you like... I could ease you." Then she realized how that sounded and hastily added, "Your headache I mean." Geez. She looked down at the water, her feet kicking gently as she hoped he hadn't taken that the wrong way. She knew others who would have purposely mistaken it for a blatant invitation. Lux could ease others in a few ways actually though she didn't think<em>that</em>way was one of them unless she was missing something. She was not the warrior some of her brothers and sisters were, it was true, and the gift of prophecy was not hers at all outside of the dreams all demigods had but in return for those shortcoming she had gained other gifts. Gifts that pushed her to make use of them when she could. Like now.<br/><br/>"I have... I've heard tales of your headaches to be honest, though you do not seem to end up in the infirmary when I am there." And seeking him out had seemed like an intrusion, no matter how severe the rumors had made his pain seem. However, he was here now in plain view. "I assume you have been taught techniques that should help but do not, not the way you wish they did?" She made it a question and as she did her hand reached up, her slim fingers tipped with perfectly manicured nails with bright pink tips--perks of being friends with a few Aphrodite girls--that slowly brushed across his temple and the lines of strain there. Where the soft pads of her fingertips grazed him, light shone and a path of relief followed the trail from his temple down toward his ear until her fingers left his skin. Just a taste of what she could do, though she hadn't done it to tease. Instead the touch had given her some information. Like the fact that this was something Tylenol couldn't fix.<br/><br/>"I can give you relief for a little while quite easily, Duke. You have but to say the word and I would do that for you simply because I can." An undeniable truth. "Though for something more lasting, something more complete, you would have to put yourself in my hands." Lux's smile remained but her eyes were serious even as she teased him gently, "Don't worry. I won't tell your boys." She didn't yet know how big a task his headache might be but she suspected that while it was not something entirely curable, she could soothe him to a point that might extend a little further than his usual treatments. Of course, that was only speculation at this point.