Who's Thalia?
You're not the first half-blood I was sent to protect
I should have told you but I thought if I did
You would never want me on this quest
If you knew what a failure I really am
Ask Annabeth, she knows
There's a tree on the hill up on half-blood hill
That watches over us silent and still
And no one at camp is safe until
We can see the tree on the hill
This was way before I met you
Chiron sent me to escort three half-bloods back to camp
Two were runaways
One was Annabeth, the other was Luke
And the third was Thalia
Tough girl like her dad Zeus
I thought I was the only kid of the big three gods
You are now
We'd almost made it back to camp
But I got nervous and we got lost
And by the time we found the hill
Something else found us
And there on the hill up on half-blood hill
A cold wind blew dark and chill
Though nothing would slay its wrathful will
We had to make a stand
And maybe if I'd been a little bit braver
Maybe if I stayed behind to fight
But maybe doesn't let me go back and save her
Maybe doesn't make it all right
Thalia saved us
We only survived because she stayed to hold off the monsters
She paid for her sacrifice with her life
That's when Zeus showed up
He saved her, right?
It was too late for that
As she died, he turned her into a tree, so that she could stand protecting us forever
The way I couldn't do for her
There's a tree on the hill up on half-blood hill
That protects us all and always will
And it's there reminding me
Of all I failed to be
The tree on the hill