How was your... eh... trip?" Artemis felt the sting of tears in his own eyes. "Um, eventful.

A cloak of invisibility? This is a highly sensitive piece of field equipment. What does he think? Some warlock pulled it out of his armpit?

Red was smiling back at me. "Ok. I'm not in trouble. But tell me your heart didn't start beating for the first time in a month." I couldn't deny it. So I didn't.

Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat.

I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!!

Remember the pain?' thought Artemis. I hate myself. I really do.

Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares!