Didn't know if it was safe to move your notes."

 

That was probably smart. Annabeth had a bronze knife that she reserved just for

monsters and people who messed with her stuff.

 

Malcolm grinned at me. "We'll wait outside while you fini s h inspection." The

Athena campers filed out the door while Annabeth cleaned up her bunk.

 

I shuffled uneasily and pretended to go through some more reports. Technically,

even on inspection, it was against camp rules for two campers to be . . . like,

alone in a cabin.

 

That rule had come up a lot when Silena and Beckendorf started dating. And I

know some of you might be thinking, Aren't all demigods related on the godly

side, and doesn't that make dating gross? But the thing is, the godly side of

your family doesn't count, genetically speaking, since gods don't have DNA.

 

A demigod would never think about dating someone who had the same godly parent.

Like two kids from Athena cabin? No way. But a daughter of Aphrodite and a son

of Hephaestus? They're not related. So it's no problem.

 

Anyway, for some strange reason 1 was thinking about this as I watched Annabeth

straighten up. She closed her laptop, which had been given to her as a gift from

the inventor Daedalus last summer.