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The giant Enceladus captures her father and invades her dreams to try to force Piper to betray her friends and his ultimatums succeed in feeding Piper’s worse beliefs about herself: that she is an untrustworthy, useless friend who will only be trouble for the people around her.
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Piper's most important relationship is with her dad, Tristan McClean—she adores the guy, but she can't get him to pay much attention to her, despite stealing BMWs (which, admittedly, doesn't seem like the best way to get attention). Her next most important relationship is with Jason Grace.
Piper thinks about her father, who played many different roles but has never taken the part of a Cherokee. She thinks that she is like him, trying to hide who she really is and pretending to be something else. She worries she will betray her friends.
Chapter 9 Summary. Still passed out, Piper dreams about her last day with her father. They share a serene day on the beach, and discuss the similarities between Greek and Cherokee mythology.
Tristan McLean is a famous film star of Cherokee descent. He is one of Aphrodite's mortal lovers, and the father of Greek demigod Piper McLean. Tristan grew up as a poor child in a two-room house in Tahlequah, Oklahoma with his father Thomas McLean. His mother has never been mentioned.
Moose learns that Piper, who is not the perfect angel her father believes her to be, has a scheme to make money by charging their classmates a nickel to have items of clothing laundered by...
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But despite flagrantly breaking the rules, Piper seldom gets in trouble (and if she does, she hides it from her friends) because she’s often able to manipulate her father into letting her off. Though Moose finds her rude and exhausting, Piper gradually becomes an ally.
