We were really miserable the next day. We had to camp out in the woods, a hundred yards away from the main road, in a marshy clearing that local kids had obviously been using for parties. The ground was full of garbage, such as flattened soda cans and fast food wrappers. We took some food and blankets from Aunty Em's so that we could actually live during the night. The Furies and Medusa had provided enough excitement for one day. We didn't want to attract any more monsters, so we decided to sleep in shifts. I volunteered to take watch first. Annabeth and Grover slept while I watched them. Grover was scared that something might come out and attack us, so I told Grover that I will wake them up if there is trouble. But Grover didn't want to sleep, so he told me to look at the sky and he said " This makes me sad. Look at the ground and the sky. You can't even see the stars. They have polluted the sky. This is a bad time to be a satyr." Then he told me something about a Great God named Pan. At first I thought he was talking about Pam, the cooking spray. Well, Pan was the lord and master of the Satyr's and one day someone screamed that the God, Pan, was dead. Since then, all Satyr's have been looking for him but no one was successful to find him. Grover said he wanted to be the first searcher to come back alive. I asked him "Why the first?" Then he said " No searcher has ever came back alive.
After a while, I started to think about what Medusa said to me, that I was being used by the Gods, I tried to forget about it, so I told Grover that I didn't care about the master bolt, I just wanted to go down to the underworld and see my mom again. I was thinking about my mom again, I started to feel a little sad. Grover had his reed pipes with him and he was playing Mozart, soft and sweet, I fell asleep. In my dreams, I stood in a dark cavern before a gaping pit. Grey mist creatures were all around me, whispering rags of smoke that I think were the spirits of the dead. They tugged my clothes, trying to pull me back. I felt like I knew I had to walk forward to the very end of the chasm. I felt dizzy when I looked down the pit. The pit was really wide and completely black, I knew it must be bottomless. Then I heard voices all around me. The voices wee scaring me until I felt someone shaking me, It was Annabeth and it was daylight. I was trembling from the dream. I could still feel the grip of the chasm monster around my chest. I asked Annabeth "How long was I asleep?" "Long enough for me to cook breakfast." Then she threw me a bag of nachos from Aunty Em's snack bar. I looked for Grover, he was sitting cross-legged on a blanket with something fuzzy in his lap. It looked like a dirty, unnaturally pink stuffed animal. Wait, it wasn't a stuffed toy, it was real, it was a pink poodle. I was scared, it might have been another monster looking for us. But, Grover said "No. It's not a monster, his name was Gladiola, and she ran away from her rich family. Grover could talk to animals, so he asked him where to go. Grover said "Gladiola says to go to the to an Amtrack station half a mile away." According to Gladiola, the west bound train leaves at noon. It was kind of weird listening to a poodle, but I knew it was the only to get out of the woods.
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