The holidays came around, and Callisto was once again visiting Aella's family, this time knowing her secret. The plane ride was uneventful, and they soon made it back to Aella's little apartment. Waiting there was a boy she remembered to be Leo, sitting on the couch.

"Leo!" Aella went over and hugged him.

"Wow. Your friendship had gotten stronger." Leo said conversationally.

"Leo can see bonds." Aella explained. "Because his mom is a child of Aphrodite, and is dad of Jupiter he has the love thing and the cloud thing."

"Cloud thing?" She asked.

"People's bonds show up as clouds of different colors. Pink for love, red for hate, green for friendship and yellow for trust. You guys have a good healthy amount of green and yellow." Leo said.

"Seems a bit over powered. Doesn't that mean you can see any possible relationships?"

"Not exactly. I can only see the feelings someone has at the moment, and only people I can see. If it is one way, and cloud will flow from one person to another. If both people have that feeling for each other but aren't together (or friends, or nemesis) they will be flowing from either way and meeting in the middle. If it is established the cloud is still. And I never share what I see if it's really private. Plus it may be cool and all, but not useful in a fight. And people can mask how they are feeling with practice." Leo explained.

"That's cool."

"So you're british? Tell me about that. Wait no scratch that, tell me about being a witch. Or a british witch." He asked.

"So, Callisto. You know the secret now?" Percy asked, as they were all having dinner.

"Yes I do. I found Aella's spear."

"And you know how important it is that you keep it a secret?" Annabeth said.

"Annabeth, I'm sure that if Aella told her she's trustworthy." Will cut in.

"I know. Just checking though.'

"I'm sure she's great, mom." A girl, Annie? Ani?, put her hand on Annabeth's shoulder.

"Gather round seven-spawn and miscellaneous!" Sammy called out, and all the 'children' came over to her. "Time for our favorite game, truth or dare undone, AKA we ask questions and stuff and answer them, plus dares. But not structured."

"We seem to be playing a lot of truth or dare lately." Aella noted to Callisto, as they settled in a circle.

"Alright. First kiss?" Sammy asked.

"Haven't had one." Aella said.

"Ember." Anilla smirked.

"What?" Jen called out.

"We were like 10, and experimenting." Ember said, and Leo burst out laughing. "And that was my first too."

"Mine was this girl Annie." Wesley said. "Don't worry Sammy, she wasn't very pretty."

"And why would I care about that? Mine was Logan."

"Logan? Your fellow centarion?" Tyler asked.

"Yes, but we weren't at the time. What about you Ty?"

"This mortal girl named Bethany last year."

"oooooooh." The room chorused.

"I also haven't had one." Leo said.

"My schoolmate, Ben." Jen said.

"It rhymes!" Aella pointed out.

"I kissed a boy named Fabian, then on the same day I kissed a girl named Zoya." Lee said.

"Really? Of all the people to have done that I didn't expect you. I mean Tyler I can understand, he's a bit of a player, but you've always been the softie." Sammy said.

"Who was better?" Callisto piped up.

"Fabian definitely. Both good though. Don't think you're getting out of this because you're new, Callisto."

"Mine was my cousin Dainton Nott. We were 7, and didn't understand the concept."

"Ooooh! Kissing cousins..." Sammy teased.

"Shut up Sammy. You're sort of dating your cousin anyway." Aella retorted.

"We're not related! Not by blood or legally." Wesley protested.

"You grew up together though. That's weird." Anilla added.

"You're supposed to have my back, sis."

"Nah."

Callisto looked at the group, laughing and teasing, and even throwing stuff at each other, and smiled.