Advice from a poodle what could go wrong

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We were pretty miserable that night.

We camped out in the woods, a hundred yards from the main road, in a marshy clearing that local kids had obviously been using for parties. The ground was littered with flattened soda cans and fast-food wrappers. I had used my Aerokinesis to give us fresh air their because damn was it polluted.

We'd taken some food and blankets from Aunty Em's, but we didn't dare light a fire to dry our damp clothes. The Furies and Medusa had provided enough excitement for one day. We didn't want to attract anything else.

We decided to sleep in shifts. Percy volunteered to take first watch.

Annabeth curled up on the blankets and was snoring as soon as her head hit the ground. Grover fluttered with his flying shoes to the lowest bough of a tree, put his back to the trunk, and stared at the night sky. I summoned my cloud and laid down on it.

Percy: "Go ahead and sleep, I'll wake you if there's trouble."

Grover: "It makes me sad, Percy."

Percy: "What does? The fact that you signed up for this stupid quest?"

Grover: "No. This makes me sad."

He pointed at all the garbage on the ground.

Grover: "And the sky. You can't even see the stars. They've polluted the sky. This is a terrible time to be a satyr."

Percy: "Oh, yeah. I guess you'd be an environmentalist."

Grover: "Only a human wouldn't be. Your species is clogging up the world so fast ... ah, never mind. It's useless to lecture a human. At the rate things are going, I'll never find Pan."

Percy: "Pam? Like the cooking spray?"

Grover: "Pan! P-A-N. The great god Pan! What do you think I want a searcher's license for?"

A strange breeze rustled through the clearing, temporarily overpowering the stink of trash and muck. It brought the smell of berries and wildflowers and clean rainwater, things that might've once been in these woods. Suddenly I was nostalgic for something I'd never known.

Percy: "Tell me about the search,"

Grover: "The God of Wild Places disappeared two thousand years ago, A sailor off the coast of Ephesos heard a mysterious voice crying out from the shore, 'Tell them that the great god Pan has died!' When humans heard the news, they believed it. They've been pillaging Pan's kingdom ever since. But for the satyrs, Pan was our lord and master. He protected us and the wild places of the earth. We refuse to believe that he died. In every generation, the bravest satyrs pledge their lives to finding Pan. They search the earth, exploring all the wildest places, hoping to find where he is hidden, and wake him from his sleep."

Percy: "And you want to be a searcher."

By then I had fallen asleep. I started to dream again I was back to the eagle part of my last dream I realized that th eagal started to fly again and I also realized that it was wearing a blindfold which ment that the eagal represents myself.   The next part of the dream was a owl a horse a goat and a eagle in a cave I suppose this ment that we would reach the Underworld. I had a couple of other dreams like one of a silver stag one of a poodle and one of Luke? But he looked alot more sinister. The dream was about to shift once more before I was woken up by Percy apparently it was my turn to be on watch until the morning so I used this time to evaluate my dreams silver stag is one of Artemis symbols. I don't know what a poodle would represent. The one that was on my mind the most was the sinister Luke. I was thinking about what that meant until I felt a light hit me I activated my Air vision and saw a deer silhouette and a girl next to it. I recognized the girls silhouette it was lady Artemis.

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