"You have the power to destroy us, Percy," the goddess of the hearth said quietly as she looked him in the eye. "Yet you're a soldier- you always have been. You have a fire inside you that not many could match and that makes you dangerous. More dangerous than that baby our family believes to be their doom... Follow your fire, my hero. Protect that child, even if it means going against everything you believe in. Even if it means going against the gods who would kill that child and its mother without batting an eye."