At first, Kateo had no idea what Maggie was talking about. Then she explained about the curse on the babies and how Kateo had to stop it by sacrificing his own life. Then she explained that there was a three month period between Kateo's death and the first baby born alive since him, some girl named Mary Anne Grace.
Kateo's memories seemed to fit her description, he had seen some blurry faces, heard some names, and voices. Maggie told him about some of things that happened in the five month period of his first life and the memory came back.
"Annabeth used to keep you at her side while she was working, sometimes she would let you play with the building program she used. Once she let you goof around and she kept your design and used it for the Google Library", Said Maggie.
Kateo vaguely remembered blue light and simple, blue, blurry shapes that he would stack on top of each other with his tiny, fat hands.
"Those buildings are everywhere now", then Maggie gasped, "Maybe the nearest town has one". Suddenly she got up and grabbed Kateo's hand, then dragged him through the woods towards a path that lead to a housing area a long way from where they were.
Maggie dragged Kateo all the way to a city, telling Jet to stay hidden in the woods. It felt weird for Kateo to be around so many people, especially since they all were staring at him.
The streets were crowded with people like when the fish make their way to the lake where Werikati stays. tall building's made of glass stood high above the ground in odd shapes and colors. One building was tall and curved in the middle with a whole bunch of purple tinted windows. Next to it was a shorter one that was triangular skyscraper with tall windows that reflected the color of the sky. Next to that… "There it is", Maggie suddenly shouted through the noise and ran across the street, dodging dark blue solar cars as she ran.
Finally they stopped in front of an oddly shaped building, triangular in front. The middle was a square and there was a thin rectangle piled on top that hung off and was supported by two thin rectangles that Kateo would soon find out were something called elevators. Instead of shiny metal beams, the building seemed to be lined with white marble and sitting on the top of the triangular entrance was a huge, colorful sign saying Google Library, all in the same font. People were walking in and out, some with black and white suits, some with regular clothing, and a large band of girls, every one of them wearing pink blouses and T-shirts.
Inside, Kateo found was huge. Any wall was painted white, but the windows each had a different shade. The floor was made up of a wood so light it was almost white. In the center stood a long, white table lined with large, novel sized screens that displayed all kinds of books. The ones that were waiting to be used scrolled through different kinds of books, Shakespeare, Harry Potter, Raven Chronicles, the Wednesday wars, Diary of a Wimpy kid, The Life of White Racer, a Dragon named Dagger, and more titles. The front desk had people in colorful shirts helping customers with downloading books on their smaller devices.
Maggie dragged Kateo over to the desk in front of a black haired teenage girl with too much eyeliner and black lipstick. When she spotted them, she rolled her eyes. "Hello, welcome to the Google Library where all the books in the world is at your fingertips", The teenager said unenthusiastically, "We have our tour of the stars in constellation room, our Google Maps 3D table is broken, storytime will begin at one o'clock, and last, but not least, would you like to enroll in our summer reading program"? Kateo got interested at the mention of reading, but before he could respond, Maggie pushed one of her fingers to his lips. "No, we are just here temporarily. Do you know where we can find information on Annabeth Jackson"? The teenager rolled her eyes and pointed over to some chrome colored wireless computers with screens the size of a small flatscreen TV. "Try our state of the art computers over there. If you want one just like it, there is a device store upstairs for all of Google's merchandise. Today's deal is…" and the teenager took out a card and read it, "Buy one Book Pad and get headphones half off".
"Thank you", Maggie said and pushed Kateo over to one of the oddly shaped chairs. The keyboard had the alphabet all wrong. The A was next to the S and all the letters were in the wrong places along with funny little signs that he had never seen before.
Maggie pulled up a chair next to him and her hand hovered over the third row of letters and symbols. Without looking down, Maggie pressed the buttons and the correct words showed up in the rectangle under the word Google. She pressed the "enter" button and suddenly, a list of sights showed up along with a row of pictures of a blonde woman with grey eyes. Kateo instantly recognized her and a blurry memory of the same woman, singing a song about heros, popped in his head.
"Recognize her", Maggie said and clicked on a biography website and began looking for the information. Kateo didn't respond.
"Here it is", Maggie shrieked in delight and highlighted a paragraph with the cursor. The paragraph was about Kateo and his short first life.
"Your full name is Kateo Charlie Jackson?" Maggie giggled, clicking on a link about him. Kateo read the entire thing three times over before Maggie gasped for air and sat back.
"What"? Kateo looked at her confused. Maggie gasped and rubbed her temples, looking mildly green.
"Oh nothing, just-just…" she groaned and rubbed her eyes. "You know, getting headaches while you read and the letters fly around".
At her answer, Kateo relaxed and softened his expression. He did know how that felt. When he first started reading, he got that and wanted to quit, but Velen wouldn't give up. She gave him a dictionary and told him to memorize it. He did just that in his free time and it was hard, but worth it. Now he could read without those headaches, but sometimes he misread a few times and couldn't look at a book too long, but it got better and he never noticed that some words seemed to be spelled backwards.
Suddenly Maggie stiffened, the shadows seemed to become darker, and there was padding of huge feet. "What", Kateo asked looking where Maggie was looking. She had been staring at a mirror and in the room stood a golden lion sniffing a shelf full of displays. "Kateo, listen to me, slowly walk over and pull that red lever on the wall". Kateo spotted the lever not far from him that read only for emergencies. For him and Maggie this was an emergency so he walked over and casually pulled the lever down. To his surprise, the alarm was so loud he yelped and ran out the emergency exit in reaction. Maggie trailed behind and ran behind him. Kateo heard screaming and a lion's roar in the hall behind them and when he turned around, he saw a huge yellow eye staring at them through the window.
Maggie yelped at the sight and bolted ahead of Kateo and they burst out into the street. Kateo could see people piling outside all in a panic and no one seemed to notice the weird kids in deer skin running into the woods.