THE BATTLE OF THE LABYRINTH Percy Jackson ... - No one's invited.

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Annabeth rolled her eyes.“Under a building? Please, Percy. The Labyrinth ishuge . It wouldn’t fit under
a single city, much less a single building.”
I thought about my dream of Nico at the River Styx. “So…is the Labyrinth part of the Underworld?”
“No.” Annabeth frowned. “Well, there may be passages from the Labyrinth downinto the Underworld.
I’m not sure. But the Underworld is way, way down. The Labyrinth is right under the surface of the
mortal world, kind of like a second skin. It’s been growing for thousands of years, lacing its way under
Western cities, connecting everything together underground. You can get anywhere through the
Labyrinth.”
“If you don’t get lost,” Grover muttered. “And die a horrible death.”
“Grover, there has to be a way,” Annabeth said. I got the feeling they’d had this conversation before.
“Clarisse lived.”
“Barely!”Grover said. “And the other guy—”
“He was driven insane. He didn’t die.”
“Oh, joy.” Grover’s lower lip quivered. “That makes me feel much better.”
“Whoa,” I said. “Back up. What’s this about Clarisse and a crazy guy?”
Annabeth glanced over toward the Ares table. Clarisse was watching us like she knew what we were
talking about, but then she fixed her eyes on her breakfast plate.
“Last year,” Annabeth said, lowering her voice, “Clarisse went on a mission for Chiron.”
“I remember,” I said. “It was secret.”
Annabeth nodded. Despite how serious she was acting, I was happy she wasn’t mad at me anymore.
And I kind of liked the fact that she’d broken the rules to come sit next to me.
“It was secret,” Annabeth agreed, “because she found Chris Rodriguez.”
“The guy from the Hermes cabin?”I remembered him from two years ago. We’d eavesdropped on Chris
Rodriguez aboard Luke’s ship, thePrincess Andromeda . Chris was one of the half-bloods who’d
abandoned camp and joined the Titan Army.
“Yeah,” Annabeth said. “Last summer he just appeared in Phoenix, Arizona, near Clarisse’s mom’s
house.”
“What do you mean he just appeared?”
“He was wandering around the desert, in a hundred and twenty degrees, in full Greek armor, babbling
about string.”
“String,” I said.
“He’d been driven completely insane. Clarisse brought him back to her mom’s house so the mortals