How do you have five children in a row, each on a different say?” “They’re gods,” Carter said. “They can do stuff like that.

He [Nico] regarded Jason, as if waiting for an attack. 'If the others found out-' 'If the others found out,' Jason said, 'You'd have that many more people to back you up, and to unleash the fury of the gods on anybody who gives you trouble.

I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good.

[Carter just asked when I became a ram whisperer. Do shut up, Carter]

He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

Maybe—just maybe—Sadie had my best interests at heart. (I just caught her making faces at me, so maybe not.)

I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.