The construction continued. Each new cabin arrived in the character of its patron god, shaped by divine will expressed through divine aesthetics.
Iris's cabin arrived on Day 6: glass-and-crystal construction that caught every available light and refracted it into spectrum, which in morning sun turned the surrounding ground into a constantly shifting rainbow pattern. Petra wept when she saw it. She did not apologize for weeping, which he thought showed good judgment.
Hypnos's cabin arrived on Day 8, and immediately everyone in a fifty-foot radius felt somewhat sleepier than the ambient conditions warranted. Chiron moved it to the quieter north end of the camp, which turned out to be optimal — the additional soporific effect on the surrounding area meant that the neighboring cabins had the best sleep in camp, which was a benefit that had not been anticipated but which the residents of those cabins did not object to.
Tyche's cabin arrived with a golden shimmer and a remarkable coincidence in which three separate Olympian campers who had been struggling with a specific skill all broke through to the next level within twenty-four hours of its appearance. This was not conclusively causal, but the camp treated it as auspicious.
Nemesis arrived on Day 10 in the form of a cabin that was precisely, mathematically balanced — symmetrical to an extent that would have required surveying instruments to establish and had apparently established itself without them. The campers near it reported a general feeling of fairness in small interactions: things landing fairly, disputes resolving equitably, the general sense that the world was weighing outcomes correctly.
Hebe's cabin, Hecate's, Iris's, Hypnos's, Tyche's, Nemesis's, Hephaestus's expansion — the gods and minor gods of the Olympian extended family building homes at camp for children they had been acknowledging informally, at best, for centuries.
He walked through the new cabin construction on Day 12 with Chiron, both of them moving through the extended horseshoe arrangement that had been expanded to accommodate the new structures.
'You put this in motion,' Chiron said. It was not the opening of a longer statement. It was a complete sentence, offered in the way of someone who wanted the fact acknowledged.
'I filed a proposal,' Kael said. 'And I asked the right people to make the right choices at the right moments. The filing was mine. The choices were Percy's and the gods'.'
'You were twelve when you began the proposal,' Chiron said. 'You were six when you began planning the conditions for it.'
Kael looked at the new cabins — at Petra, who was standing in front of Iris's cabin with her hand on the glass wall and her eyes closed. At Emmett, who had walked into the Tyche cabin and come back out looking like someone who had recognized themselves in a mirror for the first time. At Dani, who was sitting on the steps of the Hypnos cabin with the expression of someone who has arrived in a room that was clearly always meant for them and is letting that arrival fully happen.
He thought about Aurelie's diary. I hope whoever it wakes in is not afraid of it.
'She wasn't afraid of it,' he said, not fully explaining. 'And neither was I. And neither are they.'
Chiron looked at the new cabins for a long moment. Then he said: 'No. They are not.'