"Yeah," she says with a raised eyebrow, "they were all over the place where I used to live. And water spirits in the canoe lake, and satyrs helping out... monsters in the woods..."

Clarisse, too, is pretty sure they had some kind of conversation once upon a time that might have touched on this. But Benedict was drunk and she was still in her too-cool-to-make-friends era and she can't remember what she said to him.

"I lived at a secret camp for demigods," she says, just to make sure they're on the same page. "Kids who have one mortal parent and one godly parent. I grew up there."