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(just making some changes lol, not a new chapter. chapter 4 will be out soon!)
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both twins were pretty miserable at dinner that evening.
percy has thought it a good idea to iris-message tyson, their half-brother, to see how he was getting on at the forges. maddie could admit that she missed him. he gave the best hugs.
as she picked at her pizza, appetite forgotten, her mind couldn't help but stray towards her blonde friend. she wondered where she was. injured? with luke? dead?
she stiffened at the last thought, and chose to distract herself with her surroundings instead. at the hermes table, nico sat happily with the stoll brothers, who seemed to be trying to convince the little boy that poker was far better than mythomagic.
thalia sat alone at the zeus table. the ares table was unusually quiet, probably because clarisse, their head counselor, was off on a quest.
the artemis table was the most lively. the hunters drank and ate like they were having the time of their lives. zoe sat at the head of the table, looking like a true leader. bianca was having a great time. she really looked at home, maddie couldn't help but think. she laughed as another hunter taught her how to arm wrestle. the bigger one beat her every time, but bianca didn't seem to mind.
when everyone had finished eating, chiron made the customary toast to the gods and formally welcomed the hunters of artemis. the clapping was pretty halfhearted. then he announced the "good will" capture-the-flag game for tomorrow night, which got a lot better reception. maddie waved goodnight to thalia, and trailed off to cabin three, eager for a long night of sleep.
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her dreams were blurry that night.
different images flashed through her mind, each one too short to make out what was going on. maddie saw annabeth, standing on a dark hillside. flashes of old, crumbled greek columns. luke, looking pained, a dark force upon his shoulders. luke crumbling.
annabeth rushing in to help him. luke rising, a sinister look on his face. the last thing she saw was annabeth being pushed to her knees, and a distant cry of help me! before maddie lurched awake, the pained look on her best friend's face etched in her mind.
her bedsheets had tangled between her legs, almost trapping her in her bed. breathing heavily, she pushed them off of her, swinging her legs so that they brushed off of the floor as she sat on the bed.
