Gods. I was kinda hoping that wouldn't be the case.
[ It's more of a throwaway line than the actual truth, of course, because while living here in this town has felt more normal than anything Percy knows he'd ever experienced ... it has never really felt quite right. There'd always been something slightly off about his life here, not because the details were incorrect or anything, but the feeling.
He remembers he's a demigod and demigods ... they don't have lives like this one. They don't just go to school and work at a grocery store and have crushes on their best friend. They don't go to dinner with their adopted families every week, and have their adopted older brothers get them groceries to stock the fridge in their tiny trailer.
Percy feels an itch in his leg where he knows his tracker must be, if the trackers thing is real.
He nods slowly. ]
But it is, isn't it? Something ... happened to us.
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[ It's more of a throwaway line than the actual truth, of course, because while living here in this town has felt more normal than anything Percy knows he'd ever experienced ... it has never really felt quite right. There'd always been something slightly off about his life here, not because the details were incorrect or anything, but the feeling.
He remembers he's a demigod and demigods ... they don't have lives like this one. They don't just go to school and work at a grocery store and have crushes on their best friend. They don't go to dinner with their adopted families every week, and have their adopted older brothers get them groceries to stock the fridge in their tiny trailer.
Percy feels an itch in his leg where he knows his tracker must be, if the trackers thing is real.
He nods slowly. ]
But it is, isn't it? Something ... happened to us.