Whoa
After dinner everybody scatters, and I find myself alone on the beach, staring out at the sea. The sunset plays across it in many colors, scarlet waves washing inward onto my bare toes.Everyone else is with their boyfriend/girlfriend, maybe watching the sunset someplace else or maybe alone in a cabin somewhere. Along the beach I see two black figures, Charlie and Leo, standing together. A wave of loneliness washes over me along with a salty one from the sea.
Blond hair brushes my shoulder and I look up to see Annabeth. She grabs my hand silently and Percy grabs hers. We walk foreward toward the ocean. The water is up to my knees now, but I'm not wet. I hang back when the water reaches my neck. What if I can't breathe? What if Chaos grabs me again and I sink down, down, down forever?
"Don't be scared!" laughs Annabeth. Her gray eyes are shining as we walk, submerged, on the soft pebbly sand deep into the ocean's dark embrace.
And I am not afraid.
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