#Sasha takes him out on a boat at night like: young razputin I need you to realize curses are not real but hydrokinesis is

[the-flying-aquatos]

Whispering Rock is more of a...say...better built camp in this au. SO anyways have some camp ideas bc I may or may not be having Raz spent more time here than he probably does in canon.

They have one big hall at the center that doubles as the housing for the counselors. Then they have smaller houses nearby, where the campers sleep/hang out if they’re not eating or attending a meeting, or participating in training. They’re situated fairly close to the water, it’s not a very long walk to the beach, and they have section off areas for training. 

A lot of the psitanium that makes this place such a good training ground is actually closer to/under the water.

A lot of kids who go to the camp develop zoolepathy whether they expect to or not, because the conditions just line up, being underwater means being surrounded by animals, and with all the psitanium around, it boosts their abilities and gives them the ability to learn such a power easier. Some don’t develop it and that’s okay, but quite a few kids do.

They take the time to teach the kids about other psychic abilities of course, communicating with sea life and basic swimming/diving skills are very important to being a psychonaut, the latter moreso than the former, it doesn’t mean you should neglect your other abilities. Oleander mainly handles that sort of thing, though Milla will never pass up the opportunity to teach kids to levitate. They’ve got a pretty tight schedule, making time for psychic training each week alongside their more prioritized training. 

The camp has a lot more of a friendlier feel due to its focus being less on creating future government agents and more on creating future marine biologists, future leaders of conservation efforts and the like. Oleander may still be rough and strict, Sasha may still be secretive and a tad bit questionable in terms of his science projects, but something about it feels less...tense. At least, for the time being.

The camp isn’t just a summer camp, but it also from time to time becomes a safe place for runaways or children who were dropped off by their parents only to never be picked up again. They take cases of children with bad homelives VERY seriously if a child were to let that kind of thing slip.

Raz...may or may not have made his situation seem just a smidge bit worse than it really was, not on purpose of course, but the adults found it bad enough so that Augustus wasn’t contacted as soon as possible. Raz was excited to become a psychonaut, he didn’t entirely pick up on the adults’ though process at the time.