p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"LEO POV/span/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"I blinked. Slowly, I began to open my eyes and awaken from my drowsy state, "Where in the name of Hades am I?" I was lying down somewhere… in the middle of nowhere. No kidding. Everything was white and never ending. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"I finally snapped out of my daze when a light and airy voice spoke to me, "Leo Valdez, I have been waiting to meet the young defeater of Gaea for a long time. I thought you would be scrawnier, you have had your growth spurt at last. " "You mean me? Why would you want to meet me? Who and where are you?" I said, ignoring the last statement. "Rise Valdez, look me in the eye. Concentrate and you will find me."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"Rising, I found nothing. Then I rubbed his eyes and tried to remove all the fluff from my head. That was when my ADHD kicked in, after tapping my fingers against my thigh, the scene around me changed. There were trees everywhere. Animals roamed around: squirrels, cats, dogs, birds, etc. It was like emSnow White /emhad come from to life in front of me. And hovering behind me like a doll was the main character of the book herself. She was wearing a knee-length traditional Greek dress, his blond hair was in a bun. But that was not what was beautiful about her, it was as if the animals knew her personally like she had a connection with everybody, everything in the world. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;""Lady Hecate," I announced, bowing respectively (Calypso would kill me if her boyfriend came back as dust)./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;""Leo Valdez." She said without bowing but with an equal amount of respect. "I have a quest for you, Leo."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;""Oh, not again," I whined./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"She laughed, "Yes, again. So, here's what it is."/span/p