Even before she was dumped by her boyfriend, Piper was having a bad day.
First, she capsized her canoe on the lake (Percy had dried her off, but she was too embarrassed to care. In her head she thought: Piper Mclean: heroine extraordinaire – capsizes a canoe as soon as she touches it.) then she fell down the climbing wall, narrowly missing the lava, and just when she thought her day couldn't get any worse, she shot herself in the foot in archery, causing herself a lot of unwanted pain.