Now, now, Bast said. It's not so bad.Right, I said. We're stuck in Washington, D.C. We have two days to make it to Arizona and stop a god we don't know how to stop. And if we can't, we'll never see ou...
Nico realized he was still leaning against Will. He pushed him away and stood on his own two feet. ‘I’ll do what I need to.’ Will rolled his eyes. ‘Fine, Death Boy. If you want to get yourself killed...
New lesson, class. Most monsters will vaporize when sliced with a celestial bronze sword. This change is perfectly normal, and will happen to you right now if you don't BACK OFF! - Percy
NOW, MY BRETHREN! Poseidon's voice was so loud I wasn't sure if I was hearing it from the smoke image or from all the way across town. STRIKE FOR OLYMPUS!
My name is Zia Rashid. She tilted her head as if listening.Right on cue, the entire building rumbled. Dust sprinkled from the ceiling, and the slithering sounds of scorpion doubled in volume behind us...
Mrs. O' Leary is my pet. I couldn't let you stick a sword in her rump, now, could I? That might've scared her.
Most of the time, Alex identified as female, but today he was definitely male. Sometimes I slipped up and used the wrong pronouns for him/ her, so Alex liked to return the favor by teasing me merciles...
Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real -- brutally honest, inescapably dependable.
Let’s see, today is Thor’s Day the sixteenth. You mean Thursday? That’s what I said. The island will rise on the full moon six days from now, on the twenty-second, which is Woden’s Day. Wednesday? I a...
Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant serpents. Most don't have wings. Most don't breath...
It wasn’t Leo’s finest moment. Panic seized him, and he took off. His only comfort was that his friends did, too – and they weren’t the cowardly type.
It was if the city knew about Percy's dream of Gaea. It knew that the earth goddess intended on razing all human civilization, and this city, which had stood for thousands if years, was saying back at...
Incredible, Jason said. These are really good brownies.That’s your only comment? Piper demanded.He looked surprised. What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber Riv...
In case you're wondering, Old York looks absolutely nothing like New York.It looks older.Magnus Chase, master of description. You're welcome.
I'm stupid, Leo mumbled. Pi would expand outward, because it's infinite. He reversed the order of the numbers, starting in the center and working toward the edge. When he aligned the last ring, someth...
I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around.I feel so wanted. Thanks.
I was five steps away when he called, Perseus.I turned.There was a different light in his eyes, a fiery kind of pride. You did well, Perseus. Do not misunderstand me. Whatever else you do, know that y...
I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he’d sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back.
I kind of liked that, actually. You couldn’t multitask while talking to him. The dialogue required one hundred percent focus. If all conversations were like that, I imagined people wouldn’t say so muc...
I prefer to be the noisiest thing in my environment thank you very much.