Whatever she was going to say, her voice broke. She put her head down again and sobbed miserably. I wanted to comfort her, but I didn’t know how. I still felt stunned, like Kronos’s time-slow effect had affected my brain. I just couldn’t comprehend what I’d seen. Kronos was alive. He was armed. And the end of the world was probably close at hand.
Find your school satyr and get his help. You need to make it to Camp Half-Blood right away.
Why, if the British had had these pegasi in the cavalry charges on the Crimea,” Dr. Chase said, “the charge of the light brigade –.
Gaea or one of her minions. But.
You jumped into Tartarus,” she said, “because Percy said your name?
Underworld butt.
I’d love to tell you that I walked in and killed the snakes, Annabeth stabbed Elvis in the back and took his scroll, and we went home happy. You’d figure once in a while things would work out the way we planned. But noooooo.
A godsend,” she repeated. Funny choice of words.
If it involves a book burning, it’s probably a nightmare.
Stupid brilliant inventors.
Getting directions across to a group of eight-year-olds is akin to Luke Skywalker hitting the meter-wide vent on the Death Star.
This is how it happens. This is how people can have a second or third kid, even though one is enough to kill you. They’re occasionally cute enough to make you suicidal.
Percy!” Tyson yelled. He charged toward me with his arms open. Fortunately he’d shrunk back to normal size, so his hug was like getting hit by a tractor, not the entire farm.
Oh, my dad is the all-powerful evil Titan lord who wants to destroy Western Civilization. I want to be just like him when I grow up!
You should’ve seen him run when it was enchilada day in the cafeteria.
Strong and brave, Frank could believe. Picturing Grandmother as good or beautiful was more difficult.
What are those?” Nico called.
Percy pointed his pizza slice at Jason. “You, sir, are a ray of sunshine.
And even that wasn’t bad enough. Naturally they had to breath fire, too.
A person’s shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows that endured for centuries. I thought about what the ghost Setne had said – how he and I had each grown up in the shadow of a famous father. I realized now that he hadn’t just meant it as a figure of speech. My dad cast a powerful shadow that still affected me and the whole world. If.