Should I get you a shovel, so you can dig that hole deeper?
She wondered if it was her stupid mother, the goddess of love, messing with her thoughts. If Piper started getting urges to read fashion magazines, she was going to have to find Aphrodite and smack he...
She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical Calif...
She tied her blond hair back with a strip of denim torn from her pants leg, and in the fiery light of the river, her grey eyes flickered. Despite being beat-up, sooty, and dressed like a homeless pers...
She stared at me. Fly, ;ole, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, AND carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?Yeah, I sa...
She glanced at the minotaur horn in my hands, then back at me. I imagined she was going to say, or
Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment.I will rend your limbs from their sockets! he shouted. I will—Die? Carter suggested.
Right, I said. So the baboon, the crocodile…any other pets I should know about?Amos thought for a moment. Visible ones? No, I think that’s it.
Reyna marvelled at how peaceful he looked. The worry lines vanished. His face became strangely angelic…like his surname, di Angelo. She could almost believe he was a regular fourteen-year-old boy, not...
Reyna had always thought of Jason Grace as the all-American boy. Thalia looked more like the girl who robbed all-American boys at knifepoint in an alley.
Relax, Chiron told me. Keep a clear head. And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history.Relax, I said. I'm very relaxed.
Red cattle, Annabeth said. The cattle of the sun.What? I [Percy] asked.They're sacred to Apollo.Holy cows?
Piper gripped his hand and followed him, If I fall, you’re catching me. Uh, sure. Jason hoped he wasn’t blushing.Leo stepped out next. You’re catching me, too, Superman. But I ain’t holding your hand.
Percy: The Heka-what? Annabeth: The Hundred-Handed Ones. They called them that because... well, they had a hundred hands. They were the elder brothers of the Cyclopes. Tyson: Very powerful. Wonderful!...
Percy, my mom said. I give you my blessing.Be safe brother! Tyson pleaded.Enchiladas! Grover said. I wasn't sure where that came from, but it didn't seem to help much.
Percy was eating a huge stack of blue pancakes (what was his deal with blue food?) while Annabeth chided him for pouring on too much syrup. You’re drowning them! she complained. Hey, I’m a Poseidon ki...
Percy pushed on his side furiously and the crack closed. His eyes blazed with anger. She hoped he wasn’t mad at her, but if he was she couldn’t blame him.If it keeps him going, she thought, then let h...
Our camels plodded along. Katrina tried to kiss, or possibly spit on Hindenburg, and Hindenburg farted in response. I found this a depressing commentary on boy-girl relationships.
Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea.
One of these days, I would love to exit a world without being pursued by an angry mob.