Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever.

A strange breeze rustled through the clearing, temporarily overpowering the stink of trash and murk. It brought the smell of berries and wildflowers and clean rainwater, things that might've once been in these woods. Suddenly I was nostalgic for something I'd never knew.

You speak horse?' Hazel asked.'Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing,' Percy said. 'Uh, I mean a Neptune thing.'Then you and Arion should get along fine,' Hazel said. 'He's a son of Neptune too.'Percy turned pale. 'Excuse me?

The only strange thing about Jackson was the tattoo on the inside of his forearm - a trident as dark as seared wood, with a single line underneath and the letters.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

That wasn’t my future I destroyed,’ she assured herself. ‘I make my own future.