Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Once I got over the fact that my Latin teacher was a horse, we had a nice tour, though I was careful not to walk behind him. I'd done pooper-scooper patrol in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade a few times, and, I'm sorry, I did not trust Chiron's back the the way I trusted his front.

Carter Kane, 14, died tragically in Paris when he was eaten by his sister’s cat Muffin.

"Percy, you're a brave guy," She said. "Just take the compliment. I swear, is it so hard?"

I frowned. “You mean Set’s got, like, other evil gods on speed dial?

Nothing is unfixable.