Travis and I walk cautiously up to the window of the Artemis cabin, knowing that if we were caught we could possibly be turned into rabbits and used for the next day's lessons of hunting and skinning your prey.
When we glanced through the window I was in complete shock at what I saw. Nothing could have prepared me for this. There was a silver light in the middle of the room which the hunters danced around in a tribal manner. Artemis was in the front leading it all. The speakers were pounding but Artemis must have used some magic so that it wouldn't be heard by those who weren't within a foot or two from the house.
They all looked possessed while they danced to… Runs the World by Beyoncé? Well I cannot say I am surprised about that. No the object that made me nonplussed was Percy in the corner, tied in a cocoon of silver ropes as thick and the circumference of a penny. He was dangling over the silver light while the girls danced. I couldn't tell if the light was coming to him or from him but the process didn't look pleasant.
"Conner…Travis… WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Oh, no Travis. Not the best time for your 'girlfriend' to catch us.
We turned around to look at Katie just when the window above our head opened and Thalia looked out to see us. Time to book it.
Travis and I tore towards the woods with an angry Katie and 5 angrier Hunters on our tail while praying to every go we knew to help us. It didn't work. We were brought down by Hunter's arrow and dragged to our punishment. Let's just say we weren't moving from the hospital wing for a long time nor were we ever going to go within a 40 foot radius of that cabin any more. Once we got out of the infirmary people laughed at us as we went deliberately out of the way to avoid it but believe me if they had the same thing that happened to us happen to them they'd do it too.
I saw Percy the day after the weird ritual in the Artemis cabin and he looked fine, better even. To this day I still cannot figure out what he was doing there whenever I asked him about he got a dreamy look in his eye and said something about 'Chosen people'. Weird but then again Percy always was...