She carefully probed the pendant, wary of whether it would burn her neck as it had in the dream or not. After it was apparent it wouldn't harm her, in one swift movement, she grabbed it and yanked it off her neck, flinging it across the room. The gore and blood and gruesomeness of her nightmare returned in a flash, and she gasped, suddenly unable to get enough oxygen into her lungs. She exited the bathroom hastily, making her way to the cabin door. After exiting the cabin, she made her way to the beach. She thought of somewhere else she could go, but nothing really came up other than her father's turf. She lied down on the sand, exhausted. She stared straight up at the sky, thinking of nothing but how pretty it's shade of blue was. The waves lapped against her; it was an odd feeling, being splashed by water but not getting wet. She closed her eyes, and the pendant flashed behind her eyelids. She threw her eyes open and sat up on the shore abruptly, her hands clenched into fists in the sand.
"Sasha."
The voice seemed to have formed from the blowing sea breeze, nothing but a whisper in the wind. She raised an eyebrow and shook her head, sure this was nothing but a trick of her mind due to all the clouded, undecipherable thoughts.
"Sasha."
She whipped her head towards the ocean. This time her name had sounded like an actual person speaking, not the wind. Definitely not a trick of her own mind. Paranoid, she continued to look around her, before her eyes rested on the ocean again. She watched the waves grow smaller the closer they got to the beach and watched as the small waves lapped against her sides. She ran her hands along the sand, and felt something in the shore. She turned down to see a white little jewelry box, shaped like a seashell. Despite herself, she cautiously reached out and grasped the box.
She opened it, and found the shell shaped pendant, along with a note.

Sasha,
You are misinterpreting your dream. The necklace didn't bring the deaths of your friends, it brought your life. It's more than just a pretty jem cut into the shape of a husk.
-Poseidon

-
An hour later, Sasha still had no clue what to do with the necklace. She'd read the note over and over until she had it memorized, then continued to read it again and again. She'd thought of talking to Percy about it (he was sure to have more experience on how to deal with her dad than she did) but decided she didn't want to discuss her nightmare with him. Or anyone. She sat at table three with Percy and Ryan for lunch, picking at her tuna salad.
"What, you don't like fish?" Percy asked, amused.
"Hates it." Ryan responded, mouth full, and Sasha sent him a disgusted look.
"I'll take it." Percy said helpfully, taking her plate from in front of her and setting it next to his own. Sasha rolled her eyes.
"Whatever. I'm going to find Nico." She began to scoot out of the bench.
"No need," Ryan said, trying to keep a straight face, "He's right over there."
Sasha turned to see Nico over at the Hades table, looking over at her and her brothers. She smiled, and he returned the gesture before turning back to his burger. Sasha turned back to her brothers.
"He has to sit alone at every meal?"
Percy nodded. "It's kind of the rules."
Sasha turned back to look at Nico, who seemed to be working on something while eating.
"Yeah, but he doesn't have any siblings? He's completely alone?"
"I heard he used to have a sister but some wreck less demigod got her killed." Ryan said.
"That might've been me."
Sasha turned to Percy. "You had Nico's sister killed?"
Percy shifted uncomfortably. "Kind of. We were on a quest together, the titan Alas had kidnapped the goddess Artemis and Annabeth, and some of the goddess' hunters, a daughter of Zeus, and I all went on a quest to find them. Nico's sister, Bianca, had just recently been recruited to camp along with her brother, and immediately took up the offer to be one of Artemis' hunters when offered. Nico had me promise to keep her safe and she got into an incident with a giant robot in the middle of the desert. So, yeah, guilty is charged."
"Ouch." Ryan said, and Percy shrugged. "Nico hated me for a while, then tricked me and nearly got me killed by his dad, so I guess we're kind of even."
"Well it's stupid that he has to sit alone." Sasha said, standing up. She began to walk over to sit next to Nico, who raised an eyebrow at her quizzically but said nothing. She realized everyone at camp was watching her, too, which was weird, since Annabeth came to their table all the time to eat with Percy.
"Hey." She said nonchalantly, and Nico rolled his eyes.
"Hey."
"So…" 'well, this is awkward.' She thought.
"So, uh, about that movie…"
"Uh, yeah, uhm…can I take a rain check?"
Nico's eyebrows furrowed. "Yeah, alright, sure." He said, and he shook his head. "Uh, listen, I have to go catch up with Jonathan and Leo, so uh…."
"Yeah. Yeah, sure. So I'll uh, see you…" She let her thought trail off when she found that he was gone, leaving nothing but a rim of shadows in his wake.

-
"So you're telling me that suddenly the Oracle that we were waiting for before deciding on the son of Kronos' fate had a dream, or nightmare, or whatever, and she's going all oracle-possessed-mode, and so she's coming over to camp because she thinks she'll spout our a prophecy at any time and whenever she does she doesn't remember what she says when she goes back to being non-possessed?" Sasha asked, and Annabeth shrugged.
"Kind of. You have a weird way of understanding things."
"Well I like to know that I understand correctly."
"Then, yes, you do."
"Alright, fine. So Percy and Ryan know she's coming too?"
"Yupp, and all the other head councilors."
"Alright, cool. So I'm actually allowed to this meeting?" She asked, placing a hand to her chest in mock shock, and Annabeth rolled her eyes.
"Well your brother had to get over himself eventually…"
Annabeth's phone beeped, and she put it to her ear.
"Hello?...Okay….yeah, we'll be right there." She put her phone away and turned to Sasha.
"Well," She said, "Oracle's here."

-
Sasha sat in the middle of Percy and Ryan, conveniently seated as far away from Nico as the ping-pong table would allow.
"Hey, where'd you get that necklace?" Percy asked her, gesturing to the shell pendant. Sasha lifted her hand up to cover it and answered hastily "Found it on the beach." Percy looked at her oddly but said nothing and turned back to Chiron.
"So, as you all know, we have been housing the Son of Kronos, waiting for Rachel, our current Oracle of Delphi, to come to camp and help us decide what to do with him. She has been recently having…..well, I'll have her tell you herself. Rachel…" Chiron moved to the side and a girl that looked around Percy's age with frizzy, curly red hair, startling pale skin with shapes and figures drawn all over it. She also had vividly green eyes and her clothes were also covered with drawings.
"Hey. I know most of you, but I see a few new faces, so hey to you guys too. I'm Rachel Elizabeth Dare. So, like Chiron began to say, I've been having weird, freaky dreams. You know, Oracle-of-Delphi-I'm-being-possessed dreams. And, uh, most of them had the face of a boy I'd never seen before. Then, I come back to camp and I see this….Charbel boy. So then I black out, which, you know, usually means I'm giving a prophecy. Then Chiron says we need to hold a council, and here I am." The girl said.
"Well, what's the prophecy?" Clarisse asked, her annoyance evident. Clarisse wasn't one to really care about the side story, she usually liked to get to the point. Rachel closed her eyes and seemed to be concentrating. Suddenly, her eyes snapped open, but they were glowing green. There was a hissing noise, like snakes, and when Rachel opened her mouth, green mist came crawling out.

The time lord's son, conceived of a half-blood,
And the son of the white horse; a battle for blood.
The sun and the moon, joined together to free
The one lost in time, the demigod of the sea.
The princess of ocean, at the volcanoes' wake,
the end of the world she'll solely make.
Her choice to determine the fate of the west,
And she, in the end, death shall possess.