Epilogue-Soleil

"Zippety-doo-da, zippety-day, my oh my, what a wonderful day," I sang quietly while I finished cleaning my bunk. I tossed my little brother Ron's baseball glove under his pillow before the door opened. Fantastic, Norman was doing the inspection today. I just could not wait to here his stupid sarcastic comments that were bound to come. He just wrote some things on the clipboard then left. Wait, whoa, where did he think he was going without saying his stupid sarcastic comments?

I ran out of the building. He was waiting outside, leaning against the side. I acted like I had not just run out of the cabin to talk to him. I examined my nails for a few seconds. I looked up. I mocked shock.

"Wow, where did you come from?" I asked. "I thought you were, like, waaaaay down there inspecting the other cabins already."

"Not yet," Norman replied. "Uh, Soleil, there's something I need to talk to you about."

"Oh, no, you sound serious. Why do you sound serious?"

"Remember how we told you Tess joined the Hunt?"

I hesitated. "Yes. You told me she joined the Hunt, the day after she told me she wasn't joining."

"There's something else I need to tell you. About Tess."

"What is it?"

"Tess is a goddess."

"No, seriously, what is it?"

"Uh, just that. She's a goddess. She told us not to tell you until you were ready to hear it. Nico and I decided it was time to tell you."

This was probably going to take a couple days before it completely sunk in. "Well, that's great for her." I began walking away.

"Sol, you okay?"

"Please! When am I not okay?"

Norman tapped his pen on the clipboard. "Right. Uh, want to help me with inspection? You're better at criticizing things."

"Speaking of which, that shirt doesn't match those jeans."

"They're jeans. They go with everything."

"Except that shirt. They aren't the right wash."

"Just save the criticism for the cabins."

I helped him with the rest of the cabins. For all you Ares kids reading this, two words: air freshener. The Demeter cabin was nice, as usual. The cabin that was the nicest was Dionysus, though. There were only two kids there right now so it was easy to keep tidy. The other two Dionysus kids had already left. There were only a couple more days left of summer session. I was leaving on the last day to head back to Furrows.

"How was dinner with Mariah last night?" I asked Norman while I was helping him with office stuff. We were making copies of the notes that would be placed on the cabin doors on the last day.

"Fine. She and Nicki are getting along really well."

"That's good."

We did not talk that much more until after. Norman and Nick left the next day to spend a couple weeks with their dad. I began packing. I dropped my mythology book when Ron came up behind me to scare me. It opened the myth of Apollo versus Python. I had read it a couple months ago. It was starting to grow dim in my mind. I liked other myths better. It did not really bother me that I did not remember it as well. I mean, why would I need to know about Python?

For all of you who don't know, the sequel to this story is "Soleil Kentley: Snake Bites"! Just in case you wanted to read it!