The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us.
Rick RiordanI've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library.
Rick RiordanLeo drummed his fingers. โGreat. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time.โ Hazel frowned. โWhat is a chicken nugget?โ โOh, manโฆโ Leo shook his head in amazement. โThat's right. Youโve missed the last, like, seventy years. Well, my apprentice, a chicken nuggetโโ โDoesnโt matter,โ Annabeth interrupted.
Rick RiordanMost helmsmen wouldโve been satisfied with a pilotโs wheel or a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a dubstep soundboard, and motion-control sensors from a Nintendo Wii. He could turn the ship by pulling on the throttle, fire weapons by sampling an album, or raise sails by shaking his Wii controllers really fast. Even by demigod standards, Leo was seriously ADHD.
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