We ran, plowing through another pile of peppers. [No, I didn't pick a peck of them, Sadie - just shut up.]

During their separation, something had happened to Annabeth's feelings. They'd grown painfully intense-like she'd been forced to withdraw from a life-saving medication. Now she wasn't sure which was more excruciating-living with that horrible absence, or being with him again.

Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

Leo could run pretty fast when someone was trying to kill him. Sadly, he’d had a lot of practice.

If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?

Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal!