Medea's Department Store

Medea's Department Store is a department store run by the sorceress Medea. It was destroyed in an explosion in The Lost Hero.

Description
There are polished steel elevator doors each engraved in a cursive letter M with a directory next to it. It looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope. The entire ceiling was a stained glass mosaic with astrological signs around a giant sun. The daylight streaming through it washed everything in a thousand different colors. The upper floors made a ring of balconies around a huge central atrium, so they could see all the way down to the ground floor. Gold railings glittered so brightly, they were hard to look at. Aside from the stained glass ceiling and the elevator, there are no doors or windows, but two sets of glass escalators ran between the levels. The carpeting was a riot of oriental patterns and colors, and the racks of merchandise was just as bizarre. There's normal stuff like shirt racks and shoe tree mixed in with armored manikins, beds of nails and fur coats that seemed to be moving. In the middle of the atrium a fountain sprayed water twenty feet into the air, changing colors from red to yellow to blue. The pool glittered with gold coins, and on either side of the fountain stood a gilded cage- like an oversized canary cage. The counter was crammed with bubbling beakers and smoking vials on tripods. Lining the display shelves were crystal flasks- some shaped like swans or honey bear dispensers. The liquid inside were every color, from glowing white to polka-dotted. Some smelled pleasant- like fresh-baked cookies or roses and others like burning tires, skunk spray and gym lockers. There's a display case of swords. There's a hat that is made from enchanted raccoon fur. Its ringed tail twitched and little legs that wiggle frantically when someone walks. There is also a Camp Jupiter t-shirt that looks like it has been clawed at by a tiger, a Camp Half-Blood t-shirt with a hole in the middle like it has been hit with a javelin, a dense bronze breastplate that is pitted with something that looks like corrosion acid, and a Roman toga that is slashed to pieces and stained with something that looks like dried blood. There are also two large bronze sundials - each about the size of a trampoline - inlaid on the marble tile floor to the north and south of the fountain.