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

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“What is this place?” I muttered. “It looks—”
“Roman,” Annabeth said.“Those mosaics area bout two thousand years old.”
“But how can they be Roman?” I wasn’t that great on ancient history, but I was pretty sure the Roman
Empire never made it as far as Long Island.
“The Labyrinth is a patchwork,” Annabeth said. “I told you, it’s always expanding, adding pieces. It’s
the only work of architecture that grows byitself .”
“You make it sound like it’s alive.”
A groaning noise echoed from the tunnel in front of us.
“Let’s not talk about it being alive,” Grover whimpered. “Please?”
“All right,” Annabeth said. “Forward.”
“Down the hall with the bad sounds?”Tyson said. Even he looked nervous.
“Yeah,” Annabeth said. “The architecture is getting older. That’s a good sign.Daedalus’s workshop
would be in the oldest part.”
That made sense.But soon the maze was toying with us—we went fifty feet and the tunnel turned back
to cement, with brass pipes running down the sides. The walls were spray-painted with graffiti. A neon
tagger sign read MOZ RULZ.
“I’m thinking this is not Roman,” I said helpfully.
Annabeth took a deep breath,then forged ahead.
Every few feet the tunnels twisted and turned and branched off. The floor beneath us changed from
cement to mud to bricks and back again. There was no sense to any of it. We stumbled into a wince
cellar—a bunch of dusty bottles in wooden racks—like we were walking through somebody’s basement,
only there was no exit above us, just more tunnels leading on.
Later the ceiling turned to wooden planks, and I could hear voices above us and the creaking of
footsteps, as if we were walking under some kind of bar. It was reassuring to hear people, but then
again, we couldn’t get to them. We were stuck down here with no way out. Then we found our first
skeleton.
He was dressed in white clothes, like some kind of uniform. A wooden crate of glass bottles sat next to
him.
“A milkman,” Annabeth said.
“What?” I asked.
“They used to deliver milk.”
“Yeah, I know what they are, but…that was when my mom was little, like a million years ago. What’s