Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.

On the bright side," Percy said, "both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up.

You'd think he'd ran out off rocks," I muttered

Coach Hedge yelled,“Thar she blows! Kansas, ahoy!” “Holy Hephaestus,” Leo muttered. “He really needs to work on his shipspeak.

They're not so bad. They just need some attention. ...Like pets. Or my brother.

I touched the combination lock. I concentrated so hard I felt like I was dead-lifting five hundred pounds. My pulse quickening. A line of sweat trickled down my nose. Finally I felt gears turning. Metal groaned, tumblers clicked, and the bolts popped back. Carefully avoiding the handle, I pried open the door with my fingertips and extracted an unbroken vial of green liquid. Hal exhaled. Thalia kissed me on the cheek, which she probably shouldn't haven't done while I was holding a tube of deadly poison. "You are so good," she said. Did that make the risk worth? Yeah, pretty much.

You Titans are about as bright as my gym socks.