Waitress!" Hedge called. "Six double espressos, and whatever these guys want. Put it on the girl's tab.
Rick RiordanThe telkine growled and muttered as he tapped on his keyboard. Maybe he was messaging his friends on uglyface.com
Rick RiordanYou can do this" I murmured. "You are my brother. I love you. All the embarrassing bits, all the annoying bits, which I imagine is most of you--a thousand Zias might run away from you if they knew the truth. But I won't. I'll still be here.
Rick RiordanStop!" Narcissus got to his feet. "This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be..." He struggled for the right words. It had probably been a long time since he'd talked about anything other than himself. "He must be tricking us." Apparently Narcissus wasn't completely stupid.
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