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

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I got my friends untied. Eurytion didn’t try to stop me. Then I stoked up the barbecue and threw the
food into the flames as a burnt offering for Artemis and Apollo.
“Thanks, guys,” I said. “I owe you one.”
***
The sky thundered in the distance, so I figured maybe the burgers smelled okay.
“Yayfor Percy!”Tyson said.
“Can we tie up this cowherd now?” Nico asked.
“Yeah!”Grover agreed. “And that dog almost killed me!”
I looked at Eurytion, who still was sitting relaxed at the picnic table.Orthus had both his heads on the
cowherd’s knees.
“How long will it take Geryon to re-form?” I asked him.
Eurytion shrugged.“Hundred years? He’s not one of those fast re-formers, thank the gods. You’ve done
me a favor.”
“You said you’d died for him before,” I remembered.“How?”
“I’ve worked for that creep for thousands of years. Started as a regular half-blood, but I chose
immortality when my dad offered it. Worst mistake I ever made. Now I’m stuck here at this ranch. I
can’t leave. I can’t quit. I just tend the cows and fightGeryon’s fights. We’rekinda tied together.”
“Maybe you can change things,” I said.
Eurytion narrowed his eyes.“How?”
“Be nice to the animals. Take care of them. Stop selling them for food. And stop dealing with the
Titans.”
Eurytion thought about that. “That’d be all right.”
“Get the animals on your side, and they’ll help you. Once Geryon gets back, maybe he’ll be working for
you this time.”
Eurytion grinned.“Now,that I could live with.”
“You won’t try to stop us leaving?”
“Shoot, no.”
Annabeth rubbed her bruised wrists. She was still looking at Eurytion suspiciously. “Your boss said
somebody paid for our safe passage.Who?”