Climbing wall

She showed me a few more places: the metal shop (where kids were forging their own swords), the arts-and-crafts room (where satyrs were sandblasting a giant marble statue of a goat-man), and the climbing wall, which actually consisted of two facing walls that shook violently, dropped boulders, sprayed lava and clashed together if you didn’t get to the top fast enough.

We moored the Queen Anne’s Revenge on the back side of the island where the cliffs rose straight up a good two hun-dred feet. I figured the ship was less likely to be seen there. The cliffs looked climbable, barely — about as difficult as the lava wall back at camp.


| went to archery class, even though | was terrible at it, and it wasn’t the same without Chiron teaching. In arts and crafts, | started a marble bust of Poseidon, but it started looking like Sylvester Stallone, so | ditched it. | scaled the climbing wall in full lava-and-earthquake mode. And in the evenings, | did border patrol.



TLT ch.7 and SoM ch.14 and 6