I Spy Sea Green Eyes

Chapter 18

 "You got lucky,Khloe," Tritannus said as he leaned against the back of his chair. "One more minute and you would have been late."

 "And, Primordials forbid, we wouldn't want that,would we?" I said a little too sarcastically as I entered the office. Scratch that, I was always sarcastic, so I'll rephrase that. I said it in a manner perfectly normal to me.

  "You never get tired of being sarcastic,do you?" Tritannus said as he stood up from his chair.

  "It's a hobby," I shrugged matter-of-factly as I watched him walk towards the bookshelf and take a book out. Strange, I never took him to be the reading type.

  "Doing a bit of light reading,are you?" I said. I figured that he was completely immune to sarcasm, because he didn't look up from the book. What was so interesting about it, anyway?

Suddenly the bookshelf shifted, and I resisted the urge to jump in fright. More book levers? I remembered the last time I had seen any of them, and I almost died. Safe to say, it wasn't pretty.

The bookshelf shifted to reveal a door, and I whistled in appreciation. Tritannus must've heard me, because he turned back and grinned. He opened he door to reveal a large conference room that looked completely different from his weirdly beachy office. That is to say, I was absolutely plain.

On the table, there was a large stack of papers which I some how knew were the battle plans. Maybe it's my natural award-winning intuition,I thought. Or most likely, the fact that we were going to start the planning today.

  "We'll be starting with this much today," Tritannus said, pointing towards the stack of papers. No shiz, Sherlock, I thought in my head. I had been waiting for this day for so long, it wasn't even funny. 

We sat at the table, and I slowly analyzed the first paper I picked off the stack. It was a diagram of a weapon, one that could be a weapon of mass Olympian destruction if used correctly, and we couldn't have that, could we?

  "Do we have a good mechanic?" I asked him as he was going through another paper. "We really need to revise these diagrams. If anything goes wrong..." I did a fake shudder of revulsion, hoping that it wasn't too fake.

  "We have Cyclopes," Tritannus said,shrugging. "Those guys are always staring weirdly. I somehow managed to make them agree to the alliance, though  don't know how."

  "Other than the Cyclopes?" I asked as I took another paper off the stack and scanned it. It was a formation diagram. A tortoise formation, by the looks of it. 

I wrinkled my nose. Greeks didn't do formations, that was more of a Roman thing to do. And I, in the loosest definition, was Greek. I didn't exactly have the best relations with Camp Jupiter, judging by the fact that I had been on too many missions there to count, but that's another story for later.

  "Jake Mason," Tritannus said, and I suddenly snapped back to attention. Jake Mason,like the former counsellor for Hephaestus cabin? He was here? Holy Hecate........

  "No!" I said, abruptly standing up. "He can't see me! I can't see him! This can't be happening!" I ran my fingers through my hair in desperation, he definitely would have been able to recognize me, because the Hecate cabin helped the Hephaestus cabin make magical weapons!

  "Why? What's the matter?" Tritannus said, looking at me curiously. "He's the best mechanic in Othrys,second only to the Cyclops. Why're you freaking out?"

  "Because,uh....." I met his sea-green eyes, and I blurted out the first thing that came to mind.

  "He used to have a crush on me!" I said. I had absolutely no idea whether that was true or not (yeah right, like that would ever be true!), but I didn't have a better excuse to use. Tritannus gave me a questioning look as I sat back down.