I woke up about five minutes after Luke had apparently managed to hand me off to a hyperborean giant who, soon after, set me down on an stone slab cast off to the side in a room that was somehow connected to the Labyrinth. At first, all I saw was an orange glow of a torch in the corner of my vision. Soon, a few more lit up the room and curious me sat up. Luke wasn't in the room, but there was a dracaena lighting torches around the room and down the hall leading to it.

She noticed me and hissed quietly before leaving. I walked around to look at the walls (which had etchings that were starting to catch my eye). On the walls were carved people, creatures, structures, and letters. I noticed, immediately, that the words were not in English. They were Greek. Ancient Greek. And I couldn't read worth anything. I did notice that the pictures represented famous events in the Greek history.

"So, find anything interesting yet?" said a voice behind me, making me spin around. It was Luke again.

"Hah, interesting alright," I replied. "I can't understand anything other than the pictures, but other than that it's pretty intriguing."

Luke gave a bit of a half-smile at that. He walked up to a single part of the wall and rubbed his hand over it.

"This," he said, "right here. This is the whole Iliad re-written. Amazing. And this...this is Odysseus's return...it's amazing what sorts of things you find in this Labyrinth." He sighed and looked back at me.

"You want to go home, right?"

I raised my eyes to him from the words on the wall.

"Yeah," I said, "or, at least, somewhere."

He smiled at me. "I can get you there. To the House."

This took me by surprise. The last thing I was expecting was to be told that Luke could get me to the House. I had just started to wonder how he knew that I wanted to go to the House as well as how he knew what the House actually was, but I decided not to argue or push it any.

Instead, I merely asked, "How?"

Luke's eyes sparkled a bit with mischief (the kind I recognized from the Hermes cabin members-to say the least, I only realized why that was quite a while later).

"A portal. The front door connects to the Labyrinth in this room, believe it or not." Luke pointed at a string of letters on the wall that were larger than the others. He traced his fingers over them and they began to glow. Suddenly, a door-like opening appeared, but it didn't lead to the Labyrinth, it had more of the feeling of the front door to the House. I stepped towards it and turned to look at Luke before I walked through.

"Why," I asked, "should I trust you? Really. What's in it for you?"

He smirked and said, "You."

Then he pushed me through the doorway and I fell through to the Maze, where I landed right in front of Dame Primus who stared at me for a couple of seconds before saying, "You weren't gone long."

I took a deep breath and said, "It was longer than you think it was."

She nodded and didn't ask questions (oddly unlike Dame Primus, but Arthur was enjoying missing the interrogation).

I walked off to go check on things, trying not to think about the past few days at the Camp.