Things will work out - maybe just not the way you plan

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be much safer, while we've got them here—" "Ares," Poseidon interrupted, "they are worthy heroes. We will not blast my son to bits." "Nor my daughter," Zeus grumbled. "She has done well.

Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation.

The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating.

Maybe, standing next to the obelisk of Ma’at, surrounded by the Sea of Chaos, we both realized that restraining ourselves from vengeance is what made us different from Apophis. Rules had their place. They kept us from unraveling.

That sounded about as likely as Apophis and Ra becoming Facebook buddies, but I decided not to say anything.