One basketball to rule them all,” Leo muttered.

I am Persephone" she said, her voice thin and papery. "Welcome, demigods. Nico squashed a pomegranate under his boot. "Welcome? After last time, you've got the nerve to welcome me?" I shifted uneasily, because talking that way to a god can get you blasted into dust bunnies. "Um, Nico-" "It's all right," Persephone said coldly. "We had a little family spat." "Family spat?" Nico cried. "You turned me into a dandelion!

That’s Narmer with the spoon,” I guessed. “Angry because the other bloke stole his breakfast cereal?

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

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.

My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.

He's nuts" Bianca said "We need to jump off this cliff" i said "Oh nice idea!! Your nuts too