My mother teaches me bullfighting
We tore trough the night alonf dark country roads. Wind slammed against the Camero. Rain lashed the windshield. I didn't know how my mom could see anything, but she kept her foot on the gas. Every time there was flash on lighting, I looked at Grover sitting next to me in the backseat and I wondered if I'd gone insane, or if he was wearing some kind of shag-carpet pants. But, no the smell was one I remembered from kindergarten field trips to thr prtting zoo-lanolin, like from wool. The smell of a wet barnyard animal.
- Wow, thank you so much for this wonderful write-up. - Grover says mockingly
All I could think to say was. - So, you and my mum, know each other?
- Somehow it sounds like you had something else in mind.. - Thalia says with a raised eyebrow.
I don't know, it was just strange that mom wasn't shocked. - says Ariel.
Grover's eyes flitted to the rearview mirror, though there were no cars behind us. - Not exactly. I mean, we're never met in person. But she knew I was watching you. - He says.
- Watching me?
- Keeping tabs on you. Making sure you were okay. But I wasn't faking being your friend. I am your friend.
- This sounds worse and worse. - Hermes says laughing.
- Uhm... what are you exactly?
- That doesn't matter right now.
- It doesn't matter? From the waist down, my best firend i a donkey-..
Grover let out a sharp, throaty - Blaa-ha-ha!
I'd heard him make that sound before, but I'd always assumed it was a nervous laugh. Now I realized it was more of an irritated bleat.
- Goat! - he cried.
- This whole situation is getting more and more chaotic. But I love it! - Nico says laughing.
- What?
- I'm a goat from the waist down.
- You just said it didn't matter.
- Blaa-ha-ha! There are satyrs who would trample you under hoof for such an insult!
- Whoah. Wait. Satyrs. You mean like.. Mr. Brunner's myths?
-Were those old ladies at the fruit stand a myth, Ariel? Was Mrs. Dodds a myth?
- So you admit there was a Mrs. Dodds!
- Of course.
- Grover, you shouldn't have told her then, you'll just confuse her more. - Annabeth says, as Grover just looks at her sheepishy.
- Then why-...
- The less you knew, the fewer monsters you'd attract, - Grover said, like that should be perfectly obvious. - We put Mist over the humans' eyes. We hoped you'd think the Kindly One was a hallucination. But it was no good. You started to realize who you are.
- Why couldn't she know she was a demigod? Everyone seems to be trying to hide this from her. - Zeus asks.
- Everything is explained in the following sections. But the point is that it is dangerous to be the children of three brothers.- Ariel says, to which Thalia and Nico nod in agreement.
Amphitrite and Triton look at Ariel sympathetically knowing what's wrong.
Poseidon looks at his daughter worriedly. Zeus and Hades look at each other bewildered.
