Wildflowers, Percy Jackson ₁

063, it's giving oracle lmfaooo

CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE

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Sylvie and Percy were on their way out when they spotted Hermes in a side courtyard of the palace. He was staring at an Iris-message in the mist of a fountain.

Percy let go of Sylvie's hand that he'd previously been holding. "I'll meet you at the elevator."

"You sure?" But then she studied Percy's face. "Yeah, you're sure."

So she let Percy go off to Hermes, and she finished heading toward the elevator by herself. When she got there, Cedar was bounding around Nico like a dog. Sylvie couldn't tell by the expression on Nico's face if Nico wanted to be saved or left alone.

"Hey, y'all," Sylvie greeted.

Cedar whipped around at the sound of Sylvie's voice, because it was the sound of his big sister. He grinned so big that you wouldn't have even been able to tell the kid was just traumatized by a war.

"Sylvie!" he cheered.

"Hey, Sylvie," Nico nodded.

"That was so cool!" Cedar freaked out. "I always knew you were awesome! See—I told you!"

Sylvie wiped her cheek with her shoulder, trying not to blush. "You two were awesome, too," she deflected.

"Yeah, but you got blessed by Poseidon! And kissed in front of everyone!" Cedar started making mocking kissy noises at her. Nico tried to keep up his disgruntled expression, but it was hard not to be fond of Cedar.

"Alright, enough," Sylvie pushed her brother's face backwards, which made him giggle.

"You should've seen Nico, Sylvie," Cedar bragged. "He was amazing."

"I was okay," Nico corrected.

Sylvie and Cedar pulled disbelieving faces that were so similar you could actually tell they were siblings. Cedar ignored Nico, telling Sylvie, "I'm healing Nico up, since he's really drained."

"He made me eat a flower."

Nico was trying to seem off put by the whole ordeal, but Sylvie knew he was just as excited to be back with Cedar as Cedar was. Nico was difficult to understand, but his poorly-restrained joy was obvious.

"Yeah, he does that sometimes," Sylvie shrugged. "Where's Will?"

Cedar's grin fell a little. "Well... He's with his siblings. It's just him, Kayla, and Austin. They're pretty upset."

"There's only 3 Apollo campers now?" she said incredulously, heart twisting.

Cedar and Nico nodded forlornly.

"They..." Sylvie could barely believe it. "But Apollo had the most kids before."

"Before," Nico specified.