Don't Worry, Be Hapi.

I'll show them 'love is worthless,'" Silena Beauregard grumbled as she strapped on her armor. "I'll pulverize them!

Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head. Wow...when he started having thoughts like that, he knew he'd been spending too much time with Annabeth.

I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought - just maybe - we were off to a good start.

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

He could still see the dragon just fine. It was about sixty feet long, snout to tail, its body made of interlocking bronze plates. Its claws were the size of butcher knives, and its mouth was lined with hundreds of dagger-sharp metal teeth. Steam came out of its nostrils. It snarled like a chain saw cutting through a tree.

Stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!