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After a pretty intense episode where Percy almost sacrificed his life for their quest to continue, he and Annabeth and Grover are now headed to Vegas to meet up with Hermes. Will they get to Vegas, though? Let’s find out!

This episode opens with a shadowed figure talking to the lightning thief, the person who stole Zeus’ master bolt. It looks like the bolt has been stolen from the thief, and while it was recovered, the lightning thief has been warned that if he doesn’t shape up, he’s going to be replaced because there’s another war beong Zeus and Poseidon’s war, and that is what’s important to the shadowed figure. And it looks like this is a scene that’s being projected into Percy’s brain, because the shadowed figure then turns and talks to him.

When Percy wakes up from this…dream?, it’s to Annabeth trying to contact the camp to relay what Grover has learned: Ares is covering for the real lighting thief, who the three of them think is Clarissa. They were supposed to tell this to Chiron, but it’s Luke they encounter in his office when they call via the goddess Iris, and Luke tells them that Chiron is keeping the camp together as the kids are starting to take sides in the coming war. Percy was also about to tell Luke that they were going to meet his father Hermes, but it seems like the two of them don’t get along.

The three of them finally get to the Lotus, which is a modern-day equivalent of the island of the Lotus-Eaters in The Odyssey. The three of them promise not to eat anything once they’re inside, and then decide to split up as they look for Hermes inside the hotel. While searching for him inside the Lotus, we get more Luke backstory, specifically about how his mom ended messed up because of being a seer. Annabeth is planning on using Hermes’ guilt about Luke’s mom to get him to help them get to Hades.

Elsewhere in the Lotus, Grover runs into Augustus, one of the satyrs who’ve been looking for Pan. Augustus has been stuck there because he ate the lotus flowers, but Grover’s presence breaks him out of his trance long enough to get him to remember that he’s found Pan in the Lotus, and that he needs Grover’s help to get him out of there.

Percy also comes clean to Annabeth about the dreams he’s been having, especially the most recent one where the shadowed figure was talking to the actual lightning thief, as well as the possibility of something else happening besides the war between Zeus and Poseidon. Annabeth doesn’t know what to do about that, which of course is not good news for Percy. If Annabeth doesn’t know what to do, what does that mean for him?

But there’s a more immediate concern that they have to deal with, and Annabeth and Percy don’t even know that they have to deal with it. As Grover walks around the Lotus with Augustus, we find out that Augustus isn’t even eating a lotus flower. It looks like just being in the Lotus itself starts to erode one’s memories.

While Grover is losing his memory, Annabeth and Percy find Hermes, who Annabeth tries to guilt into helping them get into the Underworld. It doesn’t work on Hermes, though, because he once tried to help out his own son, and it only ended up with them hurting each other. We also find out why the people are forgetting, even if they haven’t eaten a lotus fruit. The lotus fruit is being pumped into the air, so you’re already starting to forget as soon as you step inside the hotel.

After a search and a scuffle with Augustus, Annabeth and Percy finally find Grover, and manage to get out of the Lotus thanks to the begrudging help of Hermes, since Annabeth stole the key to his car and all. But since none of them are licensed drivers, Percy ends up taking them to Santa Monica, where he’s supposed to meet his father, Poseidon.

Unfortunately, he’s too late. The summer solstice deadline has passed, and now Poseidon has to prepare for war. He does tell Percy via a Nereid that it’s not his fault and that he can return to camp. but Percy insists that he’s going to go to the Underworld and stop whatever nefarious plan Hades has in store after the war between Zeus and Poseidon.

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