I lost my cohort twice; once in life, once in death to a Graecus named Percy Jackson.
Why did you cut off my toe?
Nothing like waking up screaming, kicking off your covers, and dancing around your cabin while a weasel scampers between your feet, screeching and farting.
I scooped up the coins from the floor. “I’m taking these for the Chase Space,” I told Alex, referring to our friend Magnus’s shelter for homeless children. “Anonymous donation for the kiddos.
Aunty Em’s Garden Gnome Emporium.
See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga.
Percy can pass seventh grade. Waffles can be blue. Little miracles like that.
I’m not talking giant like $7.99 all-you-can-eat Alaskan king crab. I’m talking giant like bigger than the fountain.
Tell me. I must know how to hunt Jelly Babies.
Then he raised his hands in a stop everything gesture. “I feel a haiku coming on.” The Hunters all groaned. Apparently they’d met Apollo before. He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically. “Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. I am so cool.
We set our flag at the top of Zeus’s Fist. It’s this cluster of boulders in the middle of the west woods that, if you look at it just the right way, looks like a huge fist sticking out of the ground. If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron wouldn’t let us call the place the Poop Pile, especially after it had been named for Zeus, who doesn’t have much of a sense of humor.
She wore a big maroon Harvard sweatshirt and jeans that were covered with marker stains and little holes, like she spent her free time poking them with a fork.
Amir? Blitzen? Anybody?” a voice asked. “Jeez, I could rob this place blind and no one would know it.
So the sleigh-boat was our new solution. It worked great, except when Felix yelled down at the mortals, ‘Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas!’ Of course, most mortals can’t see magic clearly, so I’m not sure what they thought they saw as we passed overhead. No doubt it caused many of them to adjust their medication.
I was trying to listen to what he had to say, because it was kind of interesting, but everybody around me was talking, and every time I told them to shut up, the other teacher chaperone, Mrs. Dodds, would give me the evil eye.
I mean, she looked good. Really good. I probably would’ve been tongue-tied if I could’ve said anything except reet, reet, reet.
I should make sure my brethren don’t go too overboard with the root beer.
Good news! Not only is your dad being held ransom by a cannibal giant, you also get to betray the guy you like! How awesome is that?
Oh, dear reader, it was hard to yell such words at my own handsome visage, but I did. Such was my courage.
Wait,” Percy said. “So you mean – ” “Right,” Nico said again. “But it’s cool. We’re cool. I mean, I see now... you’re cute, but you’re not my type.” “I’m not your type... Wait. So –.