There will be guards, Bast said. And traps. And alarms. You can bet the house is heavily charmed to keep out gods.Magicians can do that? I asked. I imagined a big can of pesticide labeled God-Away.
There were a lot of answers I might've given, from I knew that to LIAR! to Yeah right, and I'm Zeus. - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus
Theophane gave birth to a magical ram named Krysomallos, who for some reason had wool made of gold. Eventually, Krysomallos would be skinned for his fleece, which became known as the Golden Fleece, wh...
Then she did something that really surprised me. She blinked back tears and put out her arms.I stepped forward and hugged her. Butterflies started turning my stomach into a mosh pit.Hey, it's... it's...
The world will end. The big picture cannot be changed. But in the meantime, as Loki once said, we can choose to alter the details. That’s how we take control of our destiny.
The sea does not like to be restrained.
The raft finally got here, he said.Calypso snorted. Her eyes might have been red, but it was hard to tell in the moonlight. You just noticed?But if it only shows up for guys you like-Don't push your l...
The older Nico got, the more juvenile Percy seemed to him, though Percy was three years older. Nico found his sense of humour equal parts endearing and annoying. He decided to concentrate on the annoy...
The old women only stuck around this long out of a sense of duty. Your mom was the same way. That's why I loved her. She put her duty first, ahead of evverything.
The most unreal thing about the bar was Taylor Swift’s ‘Blank Space’ blasting from the speakers.‘Dwarves like human music?’ I asked Blitzen.‘You mean humans like our music.’‘But …’ I had a sudden imag...
The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he'd just drunk a gallon of whole milk without his lactose-intolerance medicine: Seven hundred and...
The darkness is my birthright.
The Minotaur unstrapped his axe and swung it around. It was beautiful in a harsh I’m~going~togut~you~like~a~fish kind of way. Each of its twin blades was shaped like an omega: Ω—the last letter of the...
That's because we keep weapons int the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time monsters have attacked our family?Weapons, Frank grumbled. Right. I've never handled weapons before.Grandmo...
She decided she'd rather die in some less memorable way- maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at the age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy.Yes, that sounded good.
Safety from what? Who's after me?Oh, nobody much, Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. Just the Lord of the Dead and a few of his blood-thirstiest minions.
Percy’d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legsand arms used to be. That’s how his mindfelt—like his missing memories were aching.
Percy, my father said, what exactly do you mean? Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their parents, I said. They felt angry, resentful, and unloved...
Percy, let me go she croaked. You can't pull me up.His face was white with effort. She could see in his eyes that he knew it was hopeless.Never, he said. He looked up at Nico, fifteen feet above. The...
Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names... well, it usually says more about THEM than...