Three old ladies knit the socks of death
- Ariel? Grover? - Annabeth asks worriedly. Ariel and Grover aren't looking at Annabeth, they're just looking at each other awkwardly. We have a lot of explaining to do after that. Ariel thought.
I was used to the occasional weird experience, but usually they were over quickly. Ths twenty four/seven hallucination was more than I could handle. For the rest of the school year, the entire campus seemed to be playing some kind of trick on me. The students acted as if they were completely and totally convinced that Mrs. Kerr- a perky blonde woman whom I'd never seen in my life until she got on our bus at the end of the field trip - had been our pre-algebra teacher since Christmas.
- I Really felt like I was going crazy! - Ariel says dramatically.
- Well, maybe you really are a little bit. - Annabeth says with a giggle.
- And your plans too. - Grover adds seriously.
- What day is? Attack Ariel day? - she says and wipes a fake tear from her eye.
- She learned this drama from us. - Travis says pointing at himself and his brothers.
- I'm sure she's the daughter of Hermes or Apollo. - Artemis says to Athena who nods.
Every so often, I would spring a Mrs. Dodds reference somebody just to see if I could trip them up, but they would stare at me like I was psycho.
It got so I almost believed them Mrs. Dodds had never existed.
Almost.
- This is the worst feeling. Ariel says well, it's really like we're going crazy. - Piper says sadly.
- Is being a half- blood really that bad? - Hestia asks worried about the children.
- That's not even half of how bad it is. - Thalia says mockingly. The gods look at their children in shock.
But Grover couldn't fool me. When I mentioned Mrs. Dodds name to er, he hesitated at first, then insisted that Mrs. Dodds didn't exist. I knew he was lying.
- You really need to learn to lie better. - Hermes says to Grover.
- No matter how good you lie, you can't lie to Ariel. Not even we know, not even you, Father. - says Chris.
Hermes looks curiously at Ariel, who looks at him with raised eyebrows. Finally, Ariel smiles a little and turns back to the screen. Hermes continues to look at her wirh interest.
Something was going on. Something had happened at the museum.
I didn't have much time to think about it during the days, but at the night, visions of Mrs. Dodds with a talons and leathery wings would wake up in a cold sweat.
Thee freak weather continued, which didn't help my mood. One night, a thunderstorm blew out the windows in my dorm room. A few days later, the biggest tornado ever spotted in the Hudson Valley thouched down only fiftly miles from Yancy Academy. One of the crrent events we studied in social studies class was the unusual number of small planes that gone down sudden squally in the Atlantic that year.
- Can you stop the childish arguments? - Demeter shouted angrily, looking at Zeus and Poseidon.
- He started! - Zeus and Poseidon stood up at the same time and pointed at each other.
- The answer seems to be no. - Hera sighs tiredly and pors herself a glass of wine.
I startes feeling cranky and irritablee most of the time. My grades started slipping. I got into more fights with Nancy Bobofit and her friends. I was sent out into hallway in almost every class.
