This time, I was laying in some grassy field somewhere in the south. I'd never once been to the south besides when I went on my first quest, but I got the general sense I was in Georgia or something.

Why that had been on my mind, I could not say.

But I lay there, and someone was laying beside me. Together, were looking up at a deep blue, star freckled sky. I saw so many more stars then I ever saw in New York, even at Camp Half-Blood, so many that it looked like static on a TV.

"Beautiful, aren't they?" the woman asked.

She was laying in the grass next to me. I did not move, not having the energy tonight. Tonight, I'd hear her out.

"There's Psyche," she pointed out. "And the North Star."

I'd never heard of Psyche as a constellation, but what did I know? I just followed the woman's pale, slender finger, pointing skyward. Then she turned her head towards me, and I felt her eyes on me as she said, "You know, the way your green eyes shine put those Georgia stars to shame."

It was a lyric. Taylor Swift. Country. I crinkled my nose; not my genre, not my kind of music.

"That's a lie," I said. "What do you want?"

"Just trying to make you feel good," the Titaness said. She propped herself up on an elbow, and I still did not look at her. I think this close to her, if I had looked at her, she'd be so bright it would blind me.

"None of them understand you," she added.

"I'm not listening to anything you say," I said. "Not after you revealed you're a Titan."

"Two of your friends were on my side," she said. "You don't think maybe they had a point?"

There was... that.

"The son of Hermes, too, has a point. All he wants is to help half bloods not feel so abandoned."

"That's all well and good, but..."

"But, what?" she said. "What is holding you to be loyal to the Olympians, child? Nothing. Not even your so called friends."

"They are my friends," I said. "I know that without a doubt."

"Your sister once knew without a doubt, too - knew that she had powers. But here we are, right?"

Finally, I looked at her. She was surprisingly dim. She looked like a real woman laying next to me in the grass. It made me want to-

"I know one thing, child, without a doubt," she continued, her voice now a whisper. "I know that you want to be safe, and I'm showing you a way there. Just follow my lead."

She gave me a wink, then booped me on the nose; I woke up before I could cringe.