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...
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...
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.
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’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, 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...
On it! Hazel said. Go, Frank! Dragon Frank veered to the left with Annabeth in one claw yelling, Let’s get ’em! and Percy in the other claw screaming, I hate flying!
Now, sorry about that kill-on-sight business.
My fatal flaw is hubris.The brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches?No, seaweed brain. That's hummus. Hubris is worse.What could be worse than hummus?
Maybe—just maybe—Sadie had my best interests at heart. (I just caught her making faces at me, so maybe not.)
Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus.
Just because I’m Native American doesn’t mean I can track furniture through the wilderness. She deepened her voice: ‘Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged table passed this way an hour ago.’ Heck, I don’t kno...
Isis and Horus, he said. I see you've found new bodies.
In the beginning. I wasn't there.
In person, if possible, Anubis was even more drop-dead gorgeous. [Oh . . . ha, ha. I didn't catch the pun, but thank you, Carter. God of the dead, drop-dead gorgeous. Yes, hilarious. Now, may I contin...
I've found that when one us searching for danger, it's never hard to find.