Stand your ground!" Stheno yelled. "I've got free samples!

She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.

I figure the world is basically a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or the capital-G god or whatever. But it chugs along the way it's supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break off and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly... things happen for a reason.

back from when they watched black and white TV and hunted dinosaurs.

Now fight me! For today thee House of Hades will be called the saviors of Olympus.

That was so completely unfair that I told Tantalus to go chase a donut, which didn't help his mood.

Suddenly his expression turned to alarm. He sprinted toward us. For a moment I had an absurd vision of myself on the cover of one of Gran’s old romance novels, where the damsel wilts into the arms of one half-dressed beefy guy while another stands by,casting her longing looks. Oh, the horrible choices a girl must make! I wished I’d had a moment to clean up. I was still covered in dried river muck, twine, and grass, like I’d been tarred and feathered. Then Anubis pushed past me and gripped Walt’s shoulders. Well…that was unexpected.