If you've seen a crab's mouth, all foamy and gross with whiskers and snapping bits, you can imagine this one didn't look any better blown up to billboard size.
Rick RiordanYou began your journey here as a pup. Now you must find your way back. A new quest, a new start.
Rick Riordan"Bloated!" he cried. The corresponding hieroglyph flew through the air, bursting against a demon's chest in a spray of light. Instantly, the demon swelled like a water balloon and rolled screaming down the pyramid. "Flat!" Thoth blasted another demon, who collapsed and shriveled into a monster-shaped doormat. "Intestinal problems!" Thoth yelled. The poor demon who got zapped with that one turned green and doubled over.
Rick RiordanI held out the painting of the cat and the snake. โItโs a cat and a snake,โ Thoth said. Thank you, god of wisdom. You placed it for us to find, didnโt you? Youโre trying to give us some sort of clue.โ โWho, me?โ Just kill him, Horus said. Shut up, I said. At least kill the guitar.
Rick RiordanIt wasn't exactly like talking, but it went something like this: Could you give us a ride north, Percy asked, like as close to Portland as possible? Eat seals, the whale responded. Are you seals? No, Percy admitted. I've got a man satchel full of macrobiotic beef jerky, though. The whale shuddered. Promise not to feed me this, and I will take you north. Deal.
Rick Riordan