[And with an absent wave of his hand, the son of Poseidon takes advantage of the puddle of spilled drink near the cabin - the liquid surges up in a little wave, running across the ground and picking up the candy wrappers along the way. Laziest use of demigod powers ever.]

[And Percy snorts at that.] They want to forget me. Even Dad was kind of annoyed with me for that stunt, and since then most of them have just gotten worse. About the only ones that haven't are Hestia and Aphrodite.

[hello, KitKat. Goodbye, KitKat.]

I don't regret turning them down, but sometimes I've gotta wonder if it might've been better for me to say yes, just so I could keep an eye on them better. But they wouldn't've let me have two rewards.

[And he knows he picked the right one. They wouldn't have a cabin to sit outside of right now if he hadn't.]