Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly my own obituary flashed in my head: Carter Kane, 14, tragically died in Paris wen he was eaten by his sister's cat, Muffin.

Most problems look worse than they are. nothing is unfixable.

Look, I never wanted to be a half-blood. most of the time it gets you killed in nasty, dangerous ways.

There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune." "You'll have to risk it...and so will I," Frank said. "By the way, we're related." Percy almost stumbled off the roof. "What?

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.

Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.