They had both been with me through so much. I remembered Grover dive-bombing Medusa in the statue garden, and Annabeth saving us from Cerberus: we’d survived Hephaestus’s Waterland ride, the St. Louis Arch, the Lotus Casino. I had spent thousands of miles worried that I’d be betrayed by a friend, but these friends would never do that. They’d done nothing but save me, over and over.
They had both been with me through so much. I remembered Grover dive-bombing Medusa in the statue garden, and Annabeth...