THE BATTLE OF THE LABYRINTH Percy Jackson ... - No one's invited.

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The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. “Miss me?”
The satyrs fell over themselves nodding and bowing. “Oh, yes, very much, sire!”
“Well, I did not miss this place!” Dionysus snapped. “I bear bad news, my friends.Evil news. The minor
gods are changing sides.Morpheus has gone over to the enemy.Hecate,Janus , and Nemesis, as well.
Zeus knows how many more.”
Thunder rumbled in the distance.
“Strike that,” Dionysus said. “EvenZeus doesn’t know. Now, I want to hear Grover’s story.Again, from
the top.”
“But, my lord,” Silenus protested. “It’s just nonsense!”
Dionysus’s eyes flared with purple fire. “I have just learned that my son Castor is dead, Silenus. I am not
in a good mood. You would do well to humor me.”
Silenus gulped, and waved at Grover to start again.
When Grover was done, Mr. D nodded. “It sounds like just the sort of thing Pan would do. Grover is
right. The search is tiresome. You must start thinking for yourselves.” He turned to a satyr. “Bring me
some peeled grapes, right away!”
“Yes, sire!” The satyr scampered off.
“We must exile the traitor!” Silenus insisted.
“I say no,” Dionysus countered. “That is my vote.”
“I vote no as well,” Chiron put in.
Silenus set his jaw stubbornly.“All in favor of the exile?”
He and the two other old satyrs raised their hands.
“Three to two,” Silenus said.
“Ah, yes,” Dionysus said. “But unfortunately for you, a god’s vote counts twice. And as I voted against,
we are tied.”
Silenus stood, indignant. “This is an outrage! The council cannot stand at an impasse.”
“Then let it be dissolved!” Mr. D said. “I don’t care.”
Silenus bowed stiffly, along with his two friends, and they left the grove. About twenty satyrs went with
them. The rest stood around murmuring uncomfortably.
“Don’t worry,” Grover told them. “We don’t need the council to tell us what to do. We can figure it out
ourselves.”