#and any descenders who make waves in history will change that blueprint

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new idea (not a theory because... I don't wanna dig up lore evidence for this):

teyvat is a bubble on the water (yes, like that one line scaramouche says to traveler in inazuma). as in, the firmament is still there -- we all know the firmament theory by this point -- so yes the dome shape, and the borders of that dome are the bubble's surface. not, like, a "bubble universe" -- I mean a literal bubble. "suface tension in the water" bubble. so beyond (beneath) teyvat would be some kind of deep water. the abyss is like a sea, I guess? and by this I really do just mean the abyss, not the other underground places like enkanomiya, irminsul, khaenri'ah, etc.

paimon is afraid of drowning and we did fish her out of the sea east of mondstadt...

also. this isn't evidence but more like. an illustration. the summer event with klee this year, we basically went into a projected world, right? there was this whole mechanic with hydro eidolons, preprints, streaming projections. and in the mary ann quest in fontaine, we also have oceanids recreating stories and a whole world for it too. so it's not really that far-fetched to think that a world can be a projection, and such projections are associated with hydro. illusions (and dreams) in genshin are usually associated with hydro.

so now consider: teyvat is not just a bubble, but a projected world inside a bubble. a hologram out of some kind of blueprint.

and maybe this is why mona is using hydromancy to seek the truth of the world. when she looks at the stars, she's looking at the bubble's surface. we also got to scry with water in enkanomiya to deal with illusions iirc. it's a whole thing. (yes I know there's a high chance mona is actually a star/outsider of teyvat, that's not important here. she doesn't seem to remember that, or at least, she acts like it.)

tangent: alice said that the borders are getting fragile. since she watches over the border, I want her to be a hydro user. either that, or barbeloth is one, since she's mona's master.

[metaphysicalpistolsoraclemine]

Consciousness Transport

As the quantum field impacts the organization of space and time, those of us on the Ascension path may be more easily entering altered consciousness states for Consciousness Transport that could be defined as Dreamwalking. In this definition, the function of dreamwalking is not entering or interfering with any person’s dreams. As a spiritual initiate, when dedicating our consciousness to serve unity, while on the path of earth service, we discipline ourselves to master states of Compassionate selflessness. We are connected, listening and feeling into our internal guidance systems at all times. This means we are mindful of the direction of our consciousness energies, and we work towards transcending our thoughts beyond personal material concerns, rising above the many pitfalls of the Negative Ego games played in the material world. As we develop ourselves spiritually, and the inner inspiration to be of service increases with greater passion, many of us will find ourselves in the dreamwalking or remote viewing consciousness state in more spontaneous ways.

Dreamwalking is to walk or transport one’s consciousness to observe and heal the patterns and events transpiring in many alternate realities, timelines, and to see the nature of the structure of what created them, and to partner with God to find and remove reality boxes or dark portals that are used as Consciousness Traps. Dreamwalking is an altered state of heightened consciousness while in the pure observer state, it can occur while in another timeline, reality or existing outside of time. While in this altered state, we can bring that which was unconscious into our conscious awareness, so we can directly participate with that content while in our higher consciousness. The path of awakening is to bring that which is unconscious into consciousness, in order to heal the darkness or reveal the deception in order to see the greater truth. This is the state of bringing the eternal light to illuminate the shadows of darkness, thereby alchemically transforming its nature to reflect the higher truth, as the light shines upon it.

We may prepare for entering this state by opening into deep prayer, meditation, and focused attention, which may help us to inspire creativity, healing, knowledge, and communication and exchanges with other beings. Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, Aborigines, Tibetans and the Celtic peoples are the earth tribes which carried the codes of the dreamwalkers in time, and were helping to protect the earth by keeping this genetic pattern alive and its memory available for the human race during the Dark Age. The earliest Dreamwalkers after the cataclysm, were the women of this earth that formed from the Grandmother Turtle codes that were carried over from Lemuria’s matriarchal society, to keep this secret consciousness knowledge away from the invaders. Lemuria suffered a great holocaust to obliterate the power that the women had developed on the earth, with dreamwalker and Essene Templar abilities. As the Mother principle and daughter codes surface onto the earth from deep within the crystal caverns, this codified language is returning to some of the women or men in their current embodiment, that were incarnated at the time or are descendants of those original tribes in Lemuria. This group of dreamwalkers, have returned to help restore the balance of the divine feminine principle on the earth, and many are found in the Native American or aboriginal culture.

In the higher dimensions of creation, when we hold the energetic signature and feeling of a person, place or thing, our consciousness is automatically transported to wherever they are located. Consciousness Transport can happen while awake, asleep, in altered states or by intently focusing on a certain person or situation, such as focusing on a physical location or timeline on the earth body. An example is that we can transport our consciousness energy when we hold intent to connect with a city, historical site, power spot or megalithic structure, especially when we are dedicated in service to unity. Consciousness transference states, such as dreamwalking, are more natural states for those in the awakening groups of Indigos or Starseeds. Consciousness Transport and transference states can be learned and developed through any kind of practice in which the person, uninitiated or initiated, seeks to gain deeper knowledge of the state of unity that exists between God and Self. However, many Starseeds and Indigos have developed these consciousness transport skills through previous incarnations where mental mastery, polarity integration, love and devotion, were a way of life in the higher realms of existence. As a result, Dreamwalking and Consciousness Transport can happen with or without applying direct effort and intention to do so, as it is a function of the memories that are coming online that are recorded with higher genetic imprints. These dormant skills become awakened in people during the Ascension Cycle.

Gridworkers are often engaged in a variety of forms of consciousness transport, in order to hold observer point and witnessing of the events recorded in time that have occurred in the past or future, to impact the histories of the human race evolution on the earth. The act of observation collapses certain wave potentiality that makes a situation, event or object become physical or change in ways that shift the timelines, and this is not measurable by current science. It is a direct function of higher consciousness embodiment to shift timelines from destructive probabilities or annihilation, by restoring harmony and energetic balance between the polarities. When we observe electromagnetic wave-forms, archetypal patterns and the creational myth or dream symbols active in the field, we can change the physical environment and how that Electromagnetic Signals or pattern is being expressed in the manifest. The act of compassionate witnessing during consciousness transport, such as dreamwalking, allows us to witness what has happened to the earth body, where the earth was damaged, and the blueprint content that influences the direction of the collective consciousness of humanity. Where the earth has been damaged, is also the location of tremendous amounts of human pain that is stuck in that area. As a result of this trauma, the accumulated collective human soul pain has been made into energy harvesting stations for the NAA.

While dreamwalking the earth timelines, we are able to source the origin of who, what and where in the creation stories, the dreamtime narratives or creational myths that are recorded in that section of the planetary body and its network. Sometimes, we can track the transmission source to off planet structures, like constellations, Messier Objects, planets and other astronomical bodies. The collective human race is directly impacted by that content transmission, such as creation myths, archetypes, numerical coding, and Mind Control frequencies, which get recorded into the blueprints and Timelines of the earth. As has been described, many of the planet’s Morphogenetic Fields were abused with inserts of alien code used by the Controllers for mind control programming, to promote collective archetypes that control the minds of the people on the earth. Essentially, this combination of archetypal patterning for exerting control over the minds of the people, has manifested distorted behavioral Human Race Phenotypes, where traits belonging to the reptilian and Refugee Races have been imprinted on the human population.

While Dreamwalking, it is possible to observe any kind of event that occurred in a location that has recorded collective consciousness archetypes, symbols, number codes, geometric patterns, Holographic Inserts and the narratives they create, to influence the minds and control the operating consciousness levels of the people on the earth. *Continue....

#GodSourvernFree #Dreamwalker

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250 Headcanons (Part 2)

Headcanons #51-100.  These cover Annabeth’s third year at camp through the events of The Titan’s Curse.

51.  It’s their third year when Luke gets his quest.  She’s half convinced that he’ll take her with him, and is devastated when he doesn’t.  Instead, he chooses one of his siblings, who’s older than he is and has more experience at camp, and one of Clarisse’s brothers.  They’re a good group, fighting wise, but Annabeth can’t help but feel that’s all they’ve got.  They’re all talented with their weapons, and Luke’s smart and cunning, but she’s afraid that it won’t be enough.  The night before he’s supposed to leave, Annabeth finds him getting in some last minute practice in the arena.  She makes him promise to come back to her and he does.  And because Luke’s never broken a promise to her before, she believes he’ll be safe and will make it back to camp.

52.  While Luke’s gone, things kind of fall apart for Annabeth.  Her and Malcolm get into a fight over the fact she has seniority over him, despite the fact that he’s a year older than she is.  It’s a dumb argument, but they’re both so stubborn that neither one of theme are willing to compromise and they go three weeks without speaking.  It makes the Athena cabin feel tense, to say the least.

53.  Annabeth doesn’t remember how it came up--maybe they were talking about places they wanted to visit, or maybe they were just talking about their family history--but she makes a passing comment to Clarisse about the fact that her mortal family is descended from Swedish royalty.  It gets the Ares camper to make a quip about that’s why she acts so high and mighty--like she’s a princess compared to the rest of the paupers.  It’s not meant to be mean, at least, no meaner than the other quips the girls share, but it rubs Annabeth the wrong way.  Especially when Clarisse takes to calling her “princess” whenever she does something in an attempt to make herself look better.  Eventually, Annabeth gets sick of it and something inside of her just snaps.  The girls end up fighting physically outside, near the canoe lake, and they have to be pulled apart by Chiron and one of the older satyrs.  The next few months, they communicate only through death glares.

54.  With the loss of her two closest friends, and Luke still gone on a quest, Annabeth finds herself looking for friendship in an old, slightly odd companion: Grover.  After Thalia’s death, she tried to distance herself from the satyr.  But, now that Luke’s gone, he seems a pleasant reminder of the good old days.  He’s awkward, has horrible taste in music, and can’t play the pipes to save his life, but he’s funny.  And he and Annabeth once more become fast friends.

55.  When Luke’s quest weighs heavy on her mind one day, Annabeth finds Chiron to ask why she can’t have one of her own.  He looks at her with an expression that shows he knows more than he lets on and promises that her day is coming.  After she asks when exactly that day will be here, he tells her to go up to the attic and take the leather pouch from around the Oracle’s neck.  It’s the first time Annabeth hears the Great Prophecy.  Her nightmares change from being about spiders, to being about the prophecy.  And suddenly, she’s convinced that every kid who comes across the border is a child of the Big Three.  But more importantly: they’re her chance to prove herself.

56.   Luke comes back from his quest not long after, but it’s immediately obvious he’s not the same.  Technically speaking, he was successful.  But, to look at him, it sounded like a stretch.  For one thing, Luke was the only one to return from the quest, but he refused to talk about what happened to the other two guys who left with him.  He comes back clutching the arm of a dragon and the nasty cut on his face is still healing when he stumbles across the camp borders.  Even though he’s bloody and beaten, Annabeth still runs to him the second she finds out he’s back and he still picks her up just like he used to when they were on the run.  He tells her that he made good on his promise, but something about the smile on his face is different now.  It doesn’t quite reach his eyes.  It’s reminiscent of the time right after Thalia died, so she thinks it’s only a matter of time before it comes back again.  It never does.

57.   There are other things that change about Luke after he returns from his quest.  His and Annabeth’s sparring sessions, once an everyday thing, become less frequent.  At first, he misses it only once in a while.  But soon, once in a while becomes once a month, which becomes a week, which becomes every other day, until he finally just stops coming.  She asked him once why he stopped coming, and he just seemed kind of surprised by the question.  He gave some lame excuse about her not needing it anymore, or just forgetting, but he doesn’t meet her eyes when he says it.

58.   That’s the first year the Aphrodite cabin convinces Chiron to hold a prom for the campers.  After all, there are several of them that are year round and will never have a real “prom” experience, which they claim to be completely unfair.  Even though she’s too young to go, Annabeth gets wrapped up in the whole idea of prom.  She helps the Hephaestus and Aphrodite cabins set up for it, and gets a little flustered when she sees Luke in a tuxedo with his Converse sneakers.  It’s totally inappropriate, but it works on him.  And they both laugh when he pulls her up on his feet to teach her how to dance.  It’s one of the few times since he’s been back that she’s heard it.  That night is a bit of a mess.  One of the Hermes campers spikes the punch and a satyr drank too much of it.  It ended with him passing out and getting a complete prom makeover: dress, hair done around his horns, and makeup slathered on his face.  It made the bead for that summer.

59.   The next year passes relatively uneventfully.  There’s an epic prank war between all the cabins, which ends when the Hermes cabin had a python put into it by the Demeter kids.  No one’s really sure how they even managed to get it in there.  But, it’s one of the most amazing things Annabeth ever saw when she watched Luke catch it and release it back into the woods.

60.  She’s eleven when she becomes head counselor for the Athena cabin, and like always, she’s the youngest.  Most of her older siblings don’t always take direction from her because she is so young, but she does have seniority.  Still, Annabeth has always been strategic and is quick to make friends with one of her sisters that is about four years older than she is.  It’s her that most of the Athena kids listen to, but Annabeth doesn’t care.  As long as they’re following her orders, then that’s what matters.

61.   That’s also the year she gets to lead her first Capture the Flag team.  It’s what finally gets her to talk to Clarisse again--an actual conversation instead of the one word ones they’d been having.  They talk battle strategy, and recruit the Hermes and Demeter kids to be on their team.  It’s almost too easy to take the flag away from the Apollo campers and she can’t help but smirk at how overwhelmed that new kid, Will seems when she disarms him in one swift move.  Luke’s the one carrying the flag across the border, but he pats her on the shoulder after the celebration and tells her just how proud of her he is.

62.   But it’s also one of the last conversations the two of them have.  After that Capture the Flag game, Luke starts to pull away more.  There are bags under his eyes that were never there before and he always seems to be deep in conversation with Silena Beauregard whenever he’s walking around camp.  He’s not rude to her.  Whenever he sees her, Luke still smiles and waves, but there’s rarely a time where it’s just the two of them again.

63. Grover leaves a week after the start of the year round term.  Before he left, he’d told Annabeth that this seemed like the perfect chance to redeem himself to get his searcher’s license, so he was looking forward to the assignment.  It wasn’t supposed to be hard.  He was just supposed to go to some New York boarding school, meet this kid, and bring him back to camp safe.  At least he wasn’t having to chase him all across the east coast, he had joked and Annabeth had smiled before hugging him goodbye and tucking a few extra tin cans in his backpack.

64.   With Grover gone, and Clarisse and her navigating the waters of acquaintances again, Annabeth takes the time to make amends with Malcolm.  It doesn’t take much for the two siblings to fall back into their old ways and soon, they’re pouring over old maps and blueprints, trying to design a world all their own.

65.   Hackeysack becomes very popular at camp during this year.  It’s not uncommon for a camper to randomly pull out a little beanbag or ball at dinner, training, or a campfire, and a game to start up.  Because of the fact she’s still always playing pick up games of soccer (and volleyball, but more on that later), Annabeth’s pretty good at the game and gets mad at people when they let it drop.

66.   That’s the year Annabeth has any real contact with her mother.  On her birthday that year, there’s a box on her bed with the Hermes Express logo, her name and a birthday ‘best wishes’ from Athena.  When she opens it, there’s a brand spanking new Yankees cap.  At first, Annabeth thinks it’s an odd gift.  After all, she’s not really that into baseball.  But, when she puts it on, she’s stunned to see her body vanish, and it’s pretty much the coolest birthday present ever.  For the next week, Annabeth constantly wears it, trying to find ways to prank people with it.  She has the Stoll brothers convinced that the third stall in the boys’ bathroom is haunted before Chiron figures it out and makes her stop.

67.   Grover’s gone all of two months when Chiron announces at dinner one night that he must leave as well.  It’s the first time that Annabeth has ever known the centaur to leave camp, and she approaches him after dinner to ask why.  The simple answer is that there’s been a problem with one of the satyrs at one of the schools, and he needs back up.  Annabeth asked if it was Grover, and Chiron’s lack of an answer gave her the same truth that words would have.

68.   The next time he comes back is a week before Christmas, and he takes the group of year round campers up to Olympus for the winter solstice.  It’s the third time Annabeth’s been to Olympus, and each time she’s more blown away by the design of it all.  However, she can’t help but think about different ways she would improve upon it--different statues, a reflecting pool, changes to the style of the Athena temple.  But, this is the first time they’ve been there while the gods are in session.  It’s the first time she meets her mother, who does little to acknowledge Annabeth’s presence, which leaves the young girl anxious and upset.  It makes her wonder whether the Yankees hat wasn’t a mistake and her mother really doesn’t care about her anyway.  It’s Thalia’s birthday, so she doesn’t think much of it when Luke slips away from the group to go off on his own.  After all, she thinks that being alone on a day like today is a pretty good idea too.

69.   Chiron leaves again immediately after the New Year to rejoin Grover in the city.  The satyr didn’t come back to camp over the holidays, thinking it might be better to stay closer to his demigod in case something were to happen.  It’s then that things at camp start getting weird.  The sky seems darker, and the storms--which have always passed around camp--seem to take longer and longer to part.  The sea’s starting to act up, too and the campers start to suspect that something went wrong.  Soon, there’s talk of deadlines and things being stolen, though no one can seem to expand on the details.  They all just seem to be information taken from snippets of dreams.  Once, Annabeth managed to catch Luke in a rare moment where he was alone and asked him what he thought of it all.  He said that it was ridiculous and nothing was stolen.  That it was just Zeus and Poseidon making a show and things would go back to normal soon.  It was strange how he almost seemed happier, after years of pulling away.  But Annabeth didn’t care about the sudden change.  She was just happy to have her Luke back.

70.   It’s a week after the summer session starts that Chiron returned, but Grover was still MIA, which is more than cause for concern normally.  But, Chiron promised that things were okay and that the satyr and his charge would be at camp soon.  At least, he hoped.  There’s a half-hearted joke made on her part about how terrible he is at directions and that maybe they just got side tracked.  But there’s an easy look shared between the two of them, as though they both know that things are about to change.

71.   As though on cue, she has a nightmare about the Great Prophecy that night.  But, she’s not sure whether or not it’s the nightmare or the storm outside that wakes her up.  Technically, it’s not raining in the camp, but they can still hear the wind and the waves going insane outside.  Even though it’s past curfew, Annabeth puts on her Yankees hat and sneaks outside to the Big House.  There, she sees Chiron watching some struggle happening up on the hill, illuminated only by lightning strikes.  She asks for answers that he doesn’t give and she has no choice but to watch the scene on the hill unfold.  Someone goes down and there’s a terrible moment where Annabeth is afraid she’s about to witness another half-blood get turned into a tree.  But the tree never comes.  Instead, there’s a boy that comes down the hill, dragging an unconscious Grover with him.  There’s something strange about this boy.  And that is that people don’t meet Percy Jackson.  Percy Jackson happens to people.  Annabeth is the first person in camp to become aware of this fact, and becomes aware of it immediately after his arrival.  Because right after arriving on the porch of the Big House, the kid passes out.  Chiron manages to get Grover onto his back, so Annabeth is left trying to haul an unconscious boy up off the floor, wrap his arms around her neck, and essentially half drag/half carry him on her back into the infirmary.  

72.  When Chiron tells her to keep an eye on the boy and make sure he lives to the next day, Annabeth is pretty sure that it’s actually her punishment for being out after curfew.  She’s up the rest of the night, and the few times she does doze off in the chair next to him, he wakes her up by talking in his sleep.  It becomes a pretty consistent cycle.  She’ll doze, he’ll start talking, she’ll wake up, wipe the drool off his face to keep him from drowning in it (she’ll only recognize the irony later), and wait for him to wake up.  She wants to talk to him before Chiron comes back down in the morning so she can find out if he knows anything about what’s going on.  After all, Annabeth has to hope that this is the kid she’s been waiting for.  The one that’ll get her a ticket out of this place.  Even if he is kind of scrawny and doesn’t look like he’ll amount to much.  It’s the black hair and the lightning bolt that struck as soon as he was over the hill that makes her certain this kid is another child of Zeus.  Besides, he was the one who sired Thalia, and she doubted that any of the other gods were dumb enough to break their pact.

73.  Grover comes to about two hours before Percy does.  Annabeth had just finished spooning ambrosia into Percy’s mouth and was trying to ask him questions, but he seemed entirely too groggy for such a thing.  Besides, by the time he would have actually been able to give her any real information, Chiron had come back down to the infirmary to check on how Percy was coming.  He had brought Argus, who relieved Annabeth from her post and she went off with Grover, who told her the basics of who Percy was.  Together, they walked up the hill to retrieve the Minotaur horn as Grover tried to recollect what had happened the night before.  It was certainly choppy and there were pieces where he couldn’t quite remember what was going on, but he managed to get the gist of all that had happened.  And the idea of the kid, drooling in the infirmary, being smart and skillful enough to destroy the Minotaur with its own horn seemed pretty far fetched.  At the same time though, it kind of reinforced her idea that this kid was going to be a pretty big deal.

74.  Like most other days when a new camper arrives, Annabeth is excused from her activities and stays on the porch until the kid’s ready for a tour.  There is a slight exception in the fact that she’s sent on to get a spot ready for him in the Hermes cabin while Chiron takes him around the first part, which she does not complain about.  It means she gets to see Luke again.  She catches the Hermes cabin at the rock climbing wall, where she tells him all about how she saw Percy coming over the camp border and how she’s pretty sure that he’s the next Zeus kid.  Then again, she said the same thing about Will Solace and about half a dozen other campers, and each time, they were claimed by someone else, so Luke just smiles and nods.  He looks better now, far happier than he seemed to have been in a long time and it automatically puts Annabeth in a better mood.  She hangs out with him for the rest of the activity and grabs a book on the way back, before waiting outside of the Hermes cabin for Chiron and Percy to show up.

75.  After Percy makes the plumbing explode in the one girl’s bathroom, Annabeth refuses to go in there for a solid week.  Instead, she showers and does everything else in the bathroom across camp.  Logically, she knows what happened was because of something Percy did, but the feeling of being doused with toilet water is still too fresh in her mind to be comfortable.

76.  The first night that Percy’s at camp, Chiron mentions that it might be a good idea if she tutors him in Ancient Greek.  Personally, Annabeth can think of about twelve things she’d rather do than teach a newbie how to stumble through Homer, but she agrees anyway.  It’s totally a strategic move.  She figured that by doing something Chiron wanted her to, it’ll convince him she’s not too young for a quest.  And, if this Percy kid gets a quest before her, he might feel like he has to take her along since she spent time tutoring him.

77.  During their tutoring sessions, Annabeth has a hard time whether Percy’s an idiot or if he’s just trying to make her frustrated when he gets stuck reading something.  It took them two days to get through the alphabet, and the next five to get through the first few lines of the Odyssey.  It’s also during these sessions that she tries to teach Percy about the actual stories that happened that inspired some of the Greek myths.  But, since their sessions typically aren’t that long and it’s more important he learn to read Greek, they only get through a handful, and most of them deal more with who the gods are and what they represent than anything else.

78.  When Percy gets claimed, Annabeth supposed that it made sense.  Granted, she was hoping for a Zeus kid, because she had gotten on so well with Thalia.  But, the fact that Percy started irritating her from the moment he showed up was some underlying animosity because of who their parents were.  As she knelt with the rest of the campers, there was a comical mental image that flashed through her mind of Poseidon staring smugly at Athena like, ‘check out your daughter bowing before my son,’ but it was one that Annabeth really didn’t appreciate all that much.

79.  She tries to bribe Malcolm to take over Percy’s Ancient Greek lessons, but he seems just as put off by the idea of working with a Poseidon kid as she does.  Whenever she has the chance, she tries to make sure that she picks stories that she feels shows Percy’s dad in a not so flattering light.  Somehow, it makes her feel better.  Those days don’t last long though before Percy’s being granted a quest and Annabeth pretty much invites herself along.  After all, if Percy is the kid that’s supposed to help her make her mark on the world, she can’t let him get killed so soon after coming to camp.

80.  Between Grover’s snoring and Percy talking in his sleep, there were very few nights that Annabeth had a decent night’s sleep.  There are some nights when she stays up well after her watch has ended and that’s when she teaches Percy about the constellations, the way Luke once taught her when they were first on the run.  It’s during these nights that Annabeth starts to think that maybe the son of Poseidon isn’t completely hopeless, and it’s with horror that she realizes she actually has a crush on the idiot.  She chalks it up to the fact that it’s nostalgia and she’s projecting her feelings for Luke onto him and she becomes a little snarkier for the next several days.

81.  It’s only after that they work together--without Grover pulling their teeth to get them to cooperate--on the Thrill Ride-o-Love that Annabeth realizes for the first time what a good team the two of them make.  And it’s then she thinks that maybe her mother was wrong for holding a grudge for so long.  So, she decides to become his friend.

82.  When they make it to the Underworld, Annabeth wonders how many people down here that she knows, and whether or not any of them would recognize her.  There have been old campers and former counselors, her cousins, her aunt, and she half wonders if Thalia’s spirit might be roaming around as well.  But, they don’t have time to really “explore,” since they do need to get in, get the bolt, get Percy’s mom, and get out.

83.  There are other, little things that make Annabeth decide that going home after summer session is a good idea.  She realizes that maybe her mother held grudges too long and didn’t want to face the same fate.  Seeing Cerberus makes her miss the dog that she used to have when she lived with her dad and, even though he ran away years before, it still brings back good memories of days before Emily or Matthew and Bobby.  When she gets back to camp, Annabeth has a letter waiting for her from her dad.  Apparently, Chiron had written to him to tell Frederick where exactly his daughter was headed should anything go wrong.  The letter invites her back to try one last time living with him and it includes another apology and the promise to do better.  She writes him back at the end of July, after Grover’s left for his quest and the counselors are picking out the bead designs, telling him to get her room ready for her return.

84.  When people tell her that it’s Luke’s fault that Percy was stung by the pit scorpion, she doesn’t want to believe them.  Annabeth tells them that it has to have been some mistake and that he would never do anything that cruel.  But, after searching the camp in an attempt to find Luke and explain what’s going on, Annabeth has to accept that people were telling her the truth about him.  That he was the reason that Percy was put back into the infirmary.  And while she’s mad at Luke for hurting her new friend, part of Annabeth still wants to find out why he did what he did and how she can fix it.  Because the Luke she knew would never do that.  There’s a brief moment where she considers running away and going off to find him and join him.  But then, Percy wakes up and Annabeth realizes that Luke’s not the only person she has in her life anymore.

85.  School proves to be complicated, to say the least.  There are kids that she knew from the last time she lived with her dad in her classes, and it’s hard explaining where exactly she went for the last few years.  The ones who have younger siblings the same age as Matthew and Bobby are even harder to convince that she just went to live “with her mom’s family” for awhile.  Her grades are great, but Annabeth kept getting kicked out of class for correcting her teachers.  For the most part, life with her dad, brothers, and step mom is fine.  They still argue, but it’s not as bad, and Annabeth firmly believes that there is some progress made.  Still, civilian life is exhausting in a different way than her demigod one and finding new excuses to get out of classes and soccer practice to fight a monster becomes increasingly more difficult.  She’s glad when the school year ends and she’s able to go back to New York.

86.  Her oath to Chiron when she swore on the River Styx to protect Percy is still binding.

87.  It took Luke poisoning Thalia’s tree for Annabeth to finally admit that something might be wrong with Luke.  If he could hurt the one other person in their family without a second thought, then he couldn’t be the same person she knew.  She spends the next week willing to tear him limb from limb for finally killing Thalia and threatening their home and she doesn’t believe him for a second when he mentions that Thalia would have been on his side.  

88.  Her family used to spend a week during the summer at Virginia Beach.  Annabeth’s step mother found that the beaches in North and South Carolina were quieter and had more to do.  But, the air force base near the beach was what kept drawing Frederick back year after year.  There were so many things about the aviation history of Virginia, so it was hard for him to leave that particular place.

89.  When they reach Circe’s island, Annabeth almost hates to admit that she really likes the way the makeover makes her look.  After all, she spent years growing up with girls that were just drop dead gorgeous.  Being a normal thirteen year old definitely comes with self-esteem issues to begin with.  Being a thirteen year old who grew up watching guys fawn all over daughters of the other cabins gives one a whole other batch of insecurities.  On the island, her typically knotted, curly hair is finally tamed into a braid, the makeup she has on is just enough to make her features stand out, and the dress is surprisingly comfortable and well fitted.  It’s one of the few times in her life that Annabeth has felt truly beautiful.  And, even though the rational part of her knows that those things shouldn’t matter, she still wants that.

90.  The summer that they do go to get the fleece feels more like a transitional time in Annabeth’s life than any she’s ever known.  The people who are thrown together on the quest, both new and old friends from Annabeth’s life almost seems like a shift.  But that’s always how her life has seemed: constantly changing, constantly evolving, never permanent.  So, when Thalia comes back and looks exactly the same, it’s enough to bring tears to Annabeth’s eyes.  Part of it is from the sheer joy of having someone so special back in her life.  But, when the one person who thought would never let her down has turned her back on her, and the people she had sworn would be her enemies turn out to be her closest friends, it’s nice that Thalia’s still the same.

91.  Even though Thalia’s a year older than Annabeth when she comes back, she manipulates the mist so they put the two of them in nearly all the same classes.  Nearly because Thalia threatened to stab herself in the eye if she took the 3-D Architectural Design course Annabeth was so excited about.  With the two of them rooming together and being in (almost) all the same classes, it just almost becomes second nature for one of them to start talking and the other one to finish that person’s sentence.  They become so in sync that it’s almost frightening, especially for the other students.  Especially when they decide to pull some elaborate prank on their classmates or start up a new game among all the students.  Once, they started up an intense game of assassin, where students were constantly on a mission to “kill” each other, taking various bandanas away from their victims.  Thalia and Annabeth allied immediately, designing elaborate plans to “off” their classmates using various strategic plans Annabeth had learned during her time at camp.  They finally got detention for it when both girls ran a teacher over in the hall in pursuit of their victim.  Thankfully, due to her power to manipulate the mist, Thalia got them out of it.  She just didn’t want to do it, and Annabeth had soccer practice that her coach would kill her if she missed.  Once a month, their school holds a dance and Annabeth lives for these evenings.  She’s likes being able to put on a little bit of makeup and spend the night just dancing with Thalia and her other friends at school.

92.  Annabeth reaches out to the Hunters of Artemis the day after her dad announces he’s moving to San Francisco.  He promises that there’s room for her, and that he’ll send her on a plane to camp every summer.  But that’s not the point.  California is a place where Greek demigods just aren’t supposed to go.  Sure, the Underworld’s down there, and Mount Tam, but Chiron always acted as though there was another reason Greeks shouldn’t be there.  Later, she’ll learn about Camp Jupiter, and think that’s a ridiculous secret and reason to stay away from California.  But, the fact that her dad is willing to uproot the Chase family on a whim for a book, right when Annabeth is starting to feel at home in Virginia again, means that that’s not the permanent place she expected.  At least with the Hunters of Artemis, there’s permanence in immortality.  Permanence in companionship.  And then the fact that the one guy Annabeth’s convinced herself she will ever love has gone rogue and tried to kill their mutual best friend definitely doesn’t help.

93.  Thalia met the Hunters after she joined up with Luke, but before they found Annabeth.  She hadn’t gotten along with Zoe then.  So, naturally, Thalia spent most of her time talking about the Hunters--when she would talk about the Hunters--dissing them and their lieutenant.  During her time at camp, Annabeth finally comes in contact with this infamous band of girls and thinks they’re okay.  They only meet twice, but she can definitely see the appeal of staying young and adventuring forever.

94.  It never occurs to her what might happen when she jumps on that manticore’s back.  Sure, she figures she’ll fall to her death, but it’s worth it.  She’ll have saved her friends and two new demigods, and go out a hero.  It’s what Annabeth has been convinced will happen since she was seven.  She never expects to end up in San Francisco.  She hasn’t been to her dad’s new house yet, and Annabeth can’t help but wonder how far it is away from her new prison.  But it’s not just a prison.  The instant she sees Luke, suffering under the weight of the sky, all her former resentment of him completely breaks.  He looks so scared and so much like the Luke she knew and loved, and there’s not even a second thought as she takes the sky from him.

95.  Every moment is pure agony, but it’s Luke that keeps her going.  He feeds her ambrosia when the others aren’t looking.  And, when they do catch him once, he says that Annabeth has to keep her strength up in order to catch their real target.  She figures he means Thalia, and Annabeth seriously considers letting the sky crush her--crush all of them.  It’d end her agony, as well as the idiots up on the mountain with her.  But, no doubt it would keep falling and crush the rest of the world with it.  So, she eats the ambrosia, and even though the hairs on her forearms end up getting singed off, it keeps her going long enough before Artemis gets there and takes it.

96.  Her execution is scheduled for the winter solstice, and Annabeth finds it strangely ironic.  That was when Luke first stole the bolt and their whole world shifted, and it seems fitting for her life to end that same day as well.  Luke spends some evenings talking to her, trying to convince her that he’s doing the right thing, and for her to join him.  He speaks of the old days, and how Thalia will decide to join him once she arrives.  She ends up spitting on him, which only makes him madder and he has her death pushed up a day.  He does offer her the chance to repent and join Kronos--join him.  But Annabeth can tell that, even before he’s possessed, that he’s not her Luke anymore.  He’s under the influence of a Titan and it’s only through defeating Kronos that she might be able to save Luke.

97.  The first time Annabeth sees her dad’s Sopwith Camel is when he comes in, shooting up the place with his bronze bullets.  If he wasn’t swooping in to save their life, she’s pretty sure he would be winning the ‘Dorkiest Dad’ award for his latest purchase.

98.  Annabeth realizes that she’s starting to feel more than just a crush towards Percy when he shows up with Thalia and Zoe on Mt. Tam.  After all, it’s kind of hard to deny that someone’s pretty incredible when they travel cross country to save you from being pinned underneath the sky.  Still, she thinks it’s the stupidest thing he’s ever done, traveling that far without her and risking his life on some half-brained quest.  When she would see the gray streak in his hair though, she always felt bad.  He held up the sky for her, and he suffered because of her, and that gray in their hair was a constant reminder of that.  Annabeth was glad when it finally grew out.

99.  Olympic parties hold nothing to the dances her boarding school held.  There’s constant dancing and the minor gods are much better on their feet than any of the other guys at her school.  If she had had it her way, the party would have gone on a week longer so Annabeth could have danced with all of them.  The food also proves to be a step above the stale cookies and fruit punch, but that seems to be a given.  When Percy finally asks her to dance--without Annabeth having to punch him first--she hears the same song he does: sad and slow, but a little hopeful.

100.  Two things happen when Annabeth goes back to stay with her dad instead of going back to New York.  First, her brothers get copies of every single Harry Potter movie up to that point.  One day (and night) while she’s babysitting them, the three of them marathon the first four.  It was the first time Annabeth had ever seen them--being at camp does have its disadvantages--and she instantly is drawn to the Draco character.  The blonde hair, blue eyes, and the boy who wants so desperately to win the approval of his father reminds her so much of another boy that she knows.  One that’s about to lose the very essence of who he is.  The second thing that happens is around the first few weeks of March.  She’s home alone, working on some homework, while her dad and Emily are at one of Matthew and Bobby’s basketball games.  A knock on the door and Luke’s there.  Scared and unsure, and pleading with her to come with him.  She wants to believe him that something’s wrong, that together they can fight it, but when she suggests asking for help, he shuts down and shuts her out.  Annabeth begged him to come in, to let her call Chiron because it couldn’t be too late, but she refused to go with him.  The memories of what happened at Christmas were still too fresh for her to trust him like that again, and she thinks that he can sense it.  Thinks that that might be part of the reason he ends up telling her to kill him then.  But she can’t do it.  Because, no matter what, he’s still Luke.  He’s still the boy who saved her all those years ago and who she’s still in love with and the thought of him dying breaks her heart.  It’s this day that will forever be one of Annabeth’s biggest ‘what ifs.’  What if she had gone with him?  What if she had killed him then?  What if he had agreed to come inside?  What if she had found another way to save him?  What if he was still around?  What if...?