But if it’s me in the prophecy—” “We’ll only know that if you survive three more years. That can be a long time for a half-blood. When Chiron first learned about Thalia, he assumed she was the one in the prophecy. That’s why he was so desperate to get her safely to camp. Then she went down fighting and got turned into a pine tree and none of us knew what to think. Until you came along. ” On our port side, a spiky green dorsal fin about fifteen feet long curled out of the water and disappeared. “This kid in the prophecy … he or she couldn’t be like, a Cyclops?” I asked. “The Big Three have lots of monster children. ” Annabeth shook her head. “The Oracle said ‘half-blood. ’ That always means half-human, half-god. There’s really nobody alive who it could be, except you. ” “Then why do th

