Yay!' he said. 'Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!

How flattering,” I grumbled. “My soul glows.

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?

He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!

June cackled with delight, muttering, "Whoops!" as a car almost killed them.

It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.

Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted.