01_-_The_Alchemyst

Awaken your dormant powers, but the danger—the very real danger—is that
it will overload your senses.” She stopped, then asked, “Are you prepared to
take that risk?”
“I am,” Sophie said immediately, before her brother could protest. She
was afraid that if he made a quip, the goddess would do something to him.
Something ugly and lethal.
The goddess turned to look at Josh.
He sought out his sister in the gloom. The green light lent her face a
sickly cast. The Awakening was going to be dangerous, possibly even deadly,
but he could not allow Sophie to go through it on her own. “I’m ready,” he
said defiantly.
“Then we will begin.”