Sea of Monsters, The (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2)

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am Thalia,” the girl said. “Daughter of Zeus.”

Somebody had messed with my favorite place in the world, and I was not…well, a happy camper.

“And if possible, we’re going to beat him up, bind him in chains, and drag him to Mount Olympus.”

Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.

“Shut up!”

“Dude!” the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson’s weight. “Do the words ‘low-carb diet’ mean anything to you?”

“Powdered donuts,” Tyson said earnestly. “I will look for powdered donuts in the wilderness.” He headed outside and started calling, “Here, donuts!”

We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and I found myself dangling by one hand from a ledge fifty feet above the rocky surf. But I found another handhold and kept climbing. A minute later Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else t