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Selene Cabin
Selene's Cabin (#21) is the cabin that houses the demigod offspring of Selene, the Titan Goddess of the Moon, the night, radiance, months, and insanity. In the past, Selene's cabin used to be the Artemis Cabin until Selene faded, allowing her successor, Artemis, to take over her cabin. Later, there was a shrine  made for her at Camp Half-Blood  which was created by her last Demi-Titan child, Cole Harper, as a tribute to Selene.

History:
Many years ago, when Camp Half-Blood was first created, two Titans were welcome to have a cabin of their own for their Demi-Titan offspring before a few of the Olympians. They were Helios and Selene, Helios being the Titan of the Sun, and Selene being the Titan of the Moon. Before Artemis and Apollo, the twin archers, the two titans owned their cabins. Selene having Artemis', and Helios having Apollo's.

For years, Helios and Selene had cabins of their own, but when the twins started getting worshiped less by the Romans, they faded, and after the rest of their children had died, Apollo, Helios' successor to drive the Sun Chariot, had taken over the Helios Cabin. And Artemis, Selene's successor to drive the Moon Chariot, had taken over the Selene Cabin. Although, the remaining daughters of Selene were said to have joined the Hunters of Artemis and so were able to keep their cabin and bunk until they either fell in battle, or left the Hunters.

It was only later, that a new cabin for Selene was made by her last Demi-Titan daughter, Colette Harper, who Selene had created with the last of her lunar abilities for the Sun God Apollo who wanted a child for one of his lover's, Laurel, who couldn't have children of her own.

Description:
The cabin itself is made out of moonstone that’s enchanted to shine brightly at night, collecting moonlight, and saving it for when the sun comes up so then the cabin can still shine a silver light upon the camp even during the daytime.

On the outside along the white moonstone, there are vines intertwined with the temple’s pillars as they spread to the roof where a carving of a moon crescent is located. When going up to Selene’s cabin, there is a golden door with a rooster carved into it (one of Selene's sacred animals), but at first glance, it looks to be a peacock as stated by Percy Jackson when first looking at the newly built cabin. It was noted to have angered Hera when she had first discovered the temple for Selene and saw the door as the peacock is one of her sacred animals.

At night, the gold door with the rooster carved into it turns to silver and shines brightly with the moonlight that is being produced from the moonstone. As you come up two silver stairs leading to Selene’s cabin, there are two golden planters, that like the door, turn silver at night. In the planters there are Datura, also known as Moonflowers, and Moonlace, a native plant of Ogygia. The Moonflowers are described to be silky white night-opening blooms.

As for the Moonlace flowers, they are known to be bioluminescent that glow the color of silver and bloom during the night like Moonflowers. Moonlace flowers can also be blue in color.

On the inside of the temple there are moonstone floors with golden pillars supporting the inside of Selene’s cabin. Like everything else gold on the outside of the cabin that turns silver at night, so does all the other gold objects on the inside.

In the center of the cabin there is a place for a fire which never stops burning like the fire in Hera’s cabin. Like the door, Hera was upset that Selene’s cabin was similar to her own, but Cole had convinced the goddess to keep the fireplace as she said she might need a little source of light when night came around, and didn’t want to use actual lights because of how it would ruin the “vibe” of the “temple feeling”.

In the daytime, the flames in the fireplace are of a normal red, orange, and yellow color, while at night they turn a bright Azure blue. On a full moon, the flames turn silver and make the cabin just a little bit brighter than it usually is. Sometimes it makes Cole feel like as if Selene’s temple were the moon itself because of how silver and bright it had gotten.

On all sides when walking into the cabin, there are golden statues of roosters all along the halls. When coming in to see Selene’s temple, Percy Jackson had judged the roosters and asked why they were put as decoration for the cabin’s inteior. It was later explained by Annabeth that the rooster was one of Selene’s sacred animals.

Once you walk through the hall of Selene’s cabin and go up to the fireplace, behind it is a statue of Selene holding up a torch that is producing actual white moonlight instead of flames in one hand and a moon in the other. Both a torch and the moon were said to be two of Selene’s symbols as stated by Cole.

In a small area where Cole sleeps, there is a medium-sized rooster statue closing in on the entrance because before Cole had moved in the statue used to be in her living space. Cole had gotten the idea from Thalia Grace who had her own small corner in her father’s cabin where she used to sleep when she came back to camp.

Cole had gotten advice from Thalia not to put her sleeping area anywhere in front of Selene’s statue where it looks like the moon goddess is staring at the inhabitant of her cabin. It was stated by Thalia that her first night sleeping in Zeus’ cabin, she had set up her sleeping bag right in front of Zeus’ statue and couldn’t sleep most of the first night as she was forced to move out of the eyesight of her father so that she could somewhat start sleeping. It almost looked like he was staring at her.

Where Cole sleeps, there is a dark blue sleeping bag and two pillows. Right behind it is a small wooden box that once belonged to her mother, it supports a small light that stands on top of it, while inside the box there is Michael Yew’s journal of Haikus, Annabeth’s dagger that Cole found in the Underworld, which was later given to her by Annabeth when trying to return it to her.

Another thing she had was the sketch book Apollo had given her as a child, along with her Healing Poetry Book that was also gifted to her by her father later on once she got to Camp Half-Blood. Right on top of her Poetry book is a Fate Pen given to Cole by Hades. At the bottom of the box there is a small Mythomagic figurine of Hades that Bianca had given to Percy to give to Nico before she died. Percy later gave it to Nico who later on gave it to his youngest sister Cole.

At the bottom of the box there is a dagger given to Cole from Hecate as she is her legacy, along with two keys: one for the house Cole and her mother lived in while they were in Los Angeles, and the other one being the key to their apartment when they lived in Venice, Italy.

On the walls of where Cole had set up her living space, there are pictures, and the largest one up there was made by Cole’s younger paternal half-sister Georgina who had drawn it for her in The Trials of Apollo. The drawings consists of Cole’s foster parents Hemithea and Jo, who were once Hunters of Artemis, like Cole herself. Other people in the drawing were Georgina, Leo Valdez, Cole’s older foster brother, Apollo in his mortal form, and Lityerses, a Son of Demeter and King Midas. This drawing is pinned to the wall by two red and blue thumb tacks.

Other pictures on the wall behind where Cole sleeps is a picture of the whole Apollo Cabin which was taken when both Sons of Apollo Lee Fletcher and Michael Yew were alive, allowing them to be in the picture before their later deaths.

On the other side of Georgina’s picture that she made for her sister, was a photo of Cole, Apollo, and her mother at an Ice Skating rink in Italy where Cole had first learned how to skate with her parents. She had recovered this at her old apartment in Washington when she went with her brother Anubis/Walt Stone, Sadie Kane, Carter Kane, and a few other Demigods from Camp Half-Blood.

The last pictures Cole has on her wall are of her and Yan, Cole’s other half-sister, that they had taken in a photo booth when on a mission together.

Claiming:
It's been a while since Selene has claimed her Demi-Titan children since she is now faded and only has one mortal offspring left. But back when she did have more then just one Demi-Titan child she would claim them by sending a white torch with a ghostly flame that illuminated with white and light blue moonlight, bathing them in her power as she gave all of her children her blessing when they are claimed.