The End is Only the Beginning.
Apparently, it really was a serious thing when you're given a quest that has world-changing implications AND make it back to Camp alive. As soon as I set foot over the boundary line Thalia's tree provides the Camp, I glimpsed a massive crowd that was apparently waiting for me to show up before I was whisked away in the direction of the Big House on someone's shoulders (and I'm betting the Minotaur's horn that it was either a really tall Ares kid or a really buff Hephaestus one, judging by the height I was at and the shoulders I am sitting on). Chiron was waiting on the porch, with Luke, Ethan and Grover, all of them wearing smiles. When I am finally set down, Chiron had the four of us line up in front of him and presented us with golden laurel wreaths on our
