I hoped I wasn't blushing. It was bad enough I had to depend on my mom to drive me to my battles.

Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument.

Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.' 'But it's a dragon!

Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty.

I tried to tell them that things would be okay, but I didn't believe it.

So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.

I was wishing I'd bought some of that Camp Half Blood orange thermal underwear..." ?!?!