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"That way" Echo pointed toward the far shore of the island

"You want to show us so?" Hazel asked She climbed down the boulder, and Leo followed

Even up close, Echo was hard to see In fact, she seeer he looked at her

"You sure you’re real?" he asked "I mean…flesh and blood?"

"Flesh and blood" She touched Leo’s face and ers ar?" he asked

"Everything"

Leo couldn’t help s "That could be fun"

"Fun," she said unhappily

"Blue elephants"

"Blue elephants"

"Kiss me, you fool"

"You fool"

"Hey!"

"Hey!"

"Leo," Hazel pleaded, "don’t tease her"

"Don’t tease her," Echo agreed

"Okay, okay," Leo said, though he had to resist the urge It wasn’t every day he met somebody with a built-in talkback feature "So ere you pointing at? Do you need our help?"

"Help," Echo agreed eestured for them to follow and sprinted down the slope Leo could only follow her progress by the ed to match the rocks

"We’d better hurry," Hazel said "Or we’ll lose her"

They found the probleirls a problerassy meadow shaped like a blast crater, with a se were several dozen nyuessed they were nyossamer dresses Their feet were bare They had elfish features, and their skin had a slightly greenish tinge

Leo didn’t understand what they were doing, but they were all crowded together in one spot, facing the pond and jostling for a better view Several held up phone caet a shot over the heads of the others Leo had never seen ny at a dead body If so, ere they bouncing up and down and giggling so excitedly?

"What are they looking at?" Leo wondered

"Looking at," Echo sighed

"One way to find out" Hazel h the crowd "Excuse us Pardon me"

"Hey!" one nymph complained "We were here first!"

"Yeah," another sniffed "He won’t be interested in you"

The second nye red hearts painted on her cheeks Over her dress, she wore a T-shirt that read: OMG, I <3 N!!!!

"Uh, de to sound official "Make rooru at the edge of the pond, gazing intently at the water

Leo usually didn’t pay uys looked He supposed that caed, and basically everything Leo could never be Leo was used to not being noticed by girls At least, he knew he’d never get a girl by his looks He hoped his personality and sense of huh it definitely hadn’t worked yet

At any rate, Leo couldn’t ood-looking dude He had a chiseled face with lips and eyes that were somewhere between feminine beautiful and ht’ve been seventeen or twenty, it was hard to say, but he was built like a dancer--with long graceful aral calm He wore a simple white T-shirt and jeans, with a bow and quiver strapped to his back The weapons obviously hadn’t been used in a while The arroere covered in dust A spider had woven a web in the top of the bow

As Leo edged closer, he realized the guy’s face was unusually golden In the sunset, the light was bouncing off a large flat sheet of Celestial bronze that lay at the bottolow

The guy seemed fascinated with his reflection in the eous"

Around her, the nyree aze still fixed on the water "I aeous"

One of the nyot a million hits in like, an hour I think I was half of those!"

The other nyled

"YouTube video?" Leo asked "What does he do in the video, sing?"

"No, silly!" the nymph chided "He used to be a prince, and a wonderful hunter and stuff But that doesn’t matter Now he just…well, look!" She showed Leo the video It was exactly what they were seeing in real life--the guy staring at himself in the pond