to help a grieving Piper. When on the airfield, Mellie tells her family that she will be going to the McLean family's home in Oklahoma. – Nymphs that are associated with trees and forests. Agave - A Dryad that sent Grover to explore the Labyrinth. In The Burning Maze, Agave and Money Maker were found in the burning maze by Grover and those with him. Grover takes them back to Aeithales and Agave is healed while Money Maker dies of her injuries. Aloe Vera - A caring Dryad who lives in Aeithales near Palm Springs. In The Burning Maze, Aloe Vera tends to Apollo and Meg when they arrive and even tends to them following an attack by Medea. Daphne – A dryad whom Apollo fell in love with. Eros, after a conflict with Apollo, shot an arrow that made the latter fall in love with Daphne, yet at the same time shot an arrow that made Daphne hate him. She ran away and, realizing that Apollo would never give up, asked Gaea to transform her into a tree. Apollo still grieves for Daphne's fate, which he considered one of his two greatest losses, and is frequently haunted by visions of her and other dryads blaming him. Joshua - A laid-back and nature-loving Dryad who lives in Aeithales near Palm Springs. According to Apollo, male Dryads like Joshua are rare. In The Burning Maze, Joshua greets Apollo and Meg when they arrive. Meg has a crush on Joshua, and Apollo attempts to give her advice on how to catch his eye, but is ignored and he tells Meg that she is being super obvious. Juniper – A Dryad who is Grover Underwood's girlfriend. In The Battle of the Labyrinth, she informs Percy that she has seen Luke Castellan using the entrance to the Labyrinth and that she has also seen Quintus/Daedalus using the entrance to the Labyrinth. Meliae - The Dryads of the ash tree that were born when Kronos castrated Ouranos and his blood fell to Gaea. They eventually died, but reincarnated as seeds that were found by Phillip McCaffrey who was determined to restore them. After Caligula destroyed the greenhouse that Philip was going to plant their seeds, a saguaro cactcus named Hercules hid the seeds. In The Burning Maze, Meg found the seeds, planted them and they helped to slay Incitatus and the Pandai soldiers with him.