[DIARY PAGE OF THEODORE FINLEY]~Mission. Day ???
[many blood spots on the pages]
I lost my appetite, my life force, and my time.
I literally lost it. My watch was lost at sea.
When Tethys sensed my presence, she immediately pulled me to her underwater cave. I don't like the feeling of drowning but still being able to breathe. It's just weird. How Percy could stand it, I don't know.
I was having a hard time deceiving her. I told her that Dionysus sent me to taste the wine, to determine whether it's genuine or not, seeing that there's many fake wines on the market (what a lame excuse that was) but she actually bought it. Tethys admitted that she had seen me in action, participating in several wine competition and always manage to go on top. With a heavy breath, I pour the brilliant liquid to the glass and sip it. However, I suddenly slam the bottle into the ground.
While Tethys howled in agony, what she didn't know was I've replaced the real one with a cheap wine I bought on 7/11. As she cried on the wine's fate, I dashed towards the exit, feeling the water seeping inside my lungs. Thankfully, some water nymphs help me, along with dolphins and even some hippocampus; maybe Percy sent them?; and sent me to the shore. However, as I was sitting in the back of a train, trying to hitchhike my way home... I could feel the Titaness beady eyes, piercing to my bone.
No sleep tonight. I didn't even dare to close my eyes. I got a fractured rib (I could feel it slightly moving), a swollen lump on my ankle due to a sprain, and only the immortals know what else. I could feel Hermes watching me somehow. I mean, he did gave me a boxful of ambrosia and nectar while I was resting, popping near where I sat. Maybe that god was the most human of them all.
So bye for now.
