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Piper IV

Leo felt like a cell phone set on vibrate. As much as he desperately wanted to make as much noise of excitement as he could, he restrained himself from making any noise remotely possible.

However, this silent vow had little, if any, effect on his constantly moving body.

Keep it together, Valdez. Leo thought, untying his shoelace. You have just one more chapter before it's good bye book, and hello ashes.

Leo grinned, firmly retying his shoes for the umpteenth time.

"Does anybody want to read?" Chris asked, still holding the book.

"I'll read." Katie volunteered, taking the book.

"Piper IV," she read out loud.

Piper Soon Realized Annabeth's Heart wasn't in the tour.

She talked about all this amazing stuff the camp offered-magic, archery, pegasus riding, the lava wall, fighting monsters- but she showed no excitement as if her mind were elsewhere.... Piper wondered who ran the camp, and how they'd known Piper and her friends belonged here... Could you flunk out of monster fighting?

"Well... you could." Nico muttered. "But flunking is a nice way of saying dying."

A million questions bubbled in her head, but given Annabeth's mood, she decided to keep quiet.

Annabeth frowned. Although she did appreciate Piper being thoughtful about her feelings, she wished Piper had asked her questions anyway. She did not want to be the person who deprives people from asking questions.

...Piper turned and got an amazing view of the valley-a big stretch of the woods to the northwest....the whole layout of the cabins-a bizarre assortment of buildings arranged like a Greek omega, with a loop of cabins around a central green, and two wings sticking out the bottom on either side. Piper counted twenty cabins in all.

The demigods smiled, happy the gods kept their promise.

One glowed golden,

Apollo and his cabin cheered at the mention of their cabin.

Another silver.

Artemis and her hunters smiled.

One had grass on the roof.

Demeter beamed in pride.

Oh thank gods! Katie sighed with relief. If I heard there was even one chocolate bunny on that roof, I swear on all things good...

Another was bright red with barbed wire trenches.

"The best cabin!" Ares exclaimed with Clarisse shouting in agreement.

One cabin was black with fiery green torches out front.

For the first time after the recent news about Percy and Annabeth's relationship, Nico smiled.

Although he knew he would rarely, if ever, visit Camp Half-Blood after this, it was still nice to know his father finally had a cabin at the camp.

Hades looked surprised he had gotten a cabin. I thought Hera was going to convince Zeus not to give me one. 

All of it seemed like a different world from the snowy hills and fields outside....She looked at Piper like she was trying to judge how Piper was handling the news.