Not a bad strategy. [He and Annabeth immediately scouted when they first got here, so he can't fault anybody for that.] I'm not sure how it all works, but there's somebody or something watching us complete these quests that are assigned to us every month. The more we complete them, the more color starts showing up in this town. And then there's always the town's way of keeping us busy outside of that. We figured it wants us to bond with each other or something.

[He's not thrilled with how often the town screws things up, but whatever.]