Four Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised by the happy memories. Until the Incident, my childhood was a happy one, filled with fun and games and plenty of adventure. My dad and Griffin’s mom both worked for Zeus, which is why we got to live in his palace. It was a rare opportunity. As the only hematheos children allowed on Olympus at the time, we spent a lot of time amusing ourselves and each other. One of my favorite games was the scavenger hunt. We would steal two baskets of eggs from the palace kitchen—one gold and one silver. Griffin would hide the silver ones, I would hide the golden ones, and then we would race to see who found all their eggs first. This game made us equals. While Griffin could win the footraces and I almost always outclimbed him, in the scavenger hunts we were equall

