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- Page 18 and 19: Meg gulped back a sob.“Do you?”
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sat at Will’s table, regardless o
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DIONYSUS HAD NOT ASKED FOR MEG, BUT
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and culture-shocked, arrived at Cam
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worse.I wished Chiron were here, bu
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Nico gave him a death-to-apples loo
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WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU ONLY HAD o
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Before lunchtime, I decided to cons
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of dryads, I deduced, based on my c
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Peaches cuddled up next to her as i
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BROOKLYN.Normally, the greatest dan
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her red hair like confetti.“Come
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“Seems wrong to just leave them p
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WE CIRCLED UP OUR BEANBAGS.Rachel s
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by security features or regular gua
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his panic button.”“Unless,” N
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Rachel. Will checked her pulse and
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The name of these creatures suddenl
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save the neighborhood from the thre
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the rim of the pit, the rest of the
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I LOVED THE IDEA. I WAS IN FAVOR OF
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At last we reached the crane’s ce
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that I did not want to face the bul
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“JUMP THE COW?” MEG DEMANDED.
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“To the troglodytes,” Rachel gu
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on his bedroom wall.Nico rubbed his
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mind letting him do his thing. Did
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MY LIFE DIDN’T FLASH BEFORE MY EY
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well as reptiles, fine clothing, an
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Will: Worry. Trogs. Dangerous. Yike
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Rachel gave me a thin smile. “I c
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MY ADVICE: IF YOU’RE EVER GIVEN A
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things!”A board member standing b
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The trogs gasped. I had just implie
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have me do, Lester-Apollo?”He use
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THE NEXT FIVE MINUTES WEREN’T JUS
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“Yes, but not as quickly as they
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will be enough to throw the tauri o
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the feeling Meg was saying it to st
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It was after 7:00 p.m., but employe
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magical scimitars would make absolu
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the power.“Well, well!” Nero ki
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“Ah, now I remember! Good and bad
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Nero smiled at me, rather like the
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I was beginning to think Luguselwa
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music was its own sort of divinity.
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Lu lay on the opposite couch. How s
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GODS AREN’T GREAT WITH DEADLINES.
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of years of our nature so quickly,
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I winced. “Yes, fine. That. It wo
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DRIVING THE DREAM CHARIOT DID NOT g
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He moved smoothly to the bed and sa
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dream. Or perhaps I simply couldn
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“I—”“You can help.” She t
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LU WAS RIGHT.I hated her plan, but
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tossed the zip-ties through the cel
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as payment?My eyes filled with tear
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I shouldered my way into another bl
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I was tempted to say, Wrong room, c
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THAT!” in a voice that would have
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AS NICO HELPED ME TO MY FEET, LEADE
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from a light fixture, brained a gua
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going to have a scar.”“I know.
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head, he yelped, “Whoa!” then l
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THE WONDERS NEVER CEASED.The key ca
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I clenched my fists, ready to do wh
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His image jiggled, too large and of
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“Fifteen minutes,” Screech-Blin
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I scanned the room for Meg. She was
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everything she had been, every choi
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poor children? How have you treated
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IF THEIR HEARTS HAD BEEN IN IT, I W
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can’t interfere with justice.”M
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Safe to say, I had not been expecti
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“What about weapons for you?” I
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DEATH TO MY ENEMIES WAS AN EXCELLEN
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me from existence. Instead, three g
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was Luguselwa, alive and well, her
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stronger abuser.“You—Pythia,”
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you’re actually kind of a warrior
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What had he asked me earlier…? Ar
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Then again, he was as good an actor
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“I’ll gather some supplies.”
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dais, some of the Apollo kids (my k
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which had not been designed to acco
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and split by a web of glowing volca
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I MISSED.Don’t even pretend you
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air with the acrid scent of rot. I
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“Okay,” I agreed. “Wait. That
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I FOUGHT.I squirmed.I pounded on Py
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a beginning and an end. Behind me y
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abandoned so many times, used so cr
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“I TOLD YOU SO.”I never doubted
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My arms seemed to become more subst
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well.”A flash of silver light, an
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WHY SO BIG?I’d never really thoug
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uncomfortably in his seat, though o
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Those words settled over me like Ve
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“Very well. So…welcome home.”
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offers. Appeals for charities like
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My punishment was over, yet his con
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Nico’s compulsion to explore the
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THE WAYSTATION FELT SO DIFFERENT IN
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was more lovesick than ever over th
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still moving forward, with new shri
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SPEAKING OF PIPER MCLEAN, I EMBARRA
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“You too, Apollo. And next time,
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Meg boasted that the former Oracle
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Achilles a Greek hero of the Trojan
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headDaedalus a Greek demigod, the s
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communication. Roman form: MercuryH
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and expression; daughters of Zeus a
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Teumessian Fox a gigantic fox sent