You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal.

steeplechase

hubris.”

Just before I banged him on the head

pinochle

“Look, Percy, the Sea of Monsters is the sea all heroes sail through on their adventures. It used to be in the Mediterranean, yes. But like everything else, it shifts locations as the West’s center of power shifts.” “Like Mount Olympus being above the Empire State Building,” I said. “And Hades being under Los Angeles.”

“Stymphalian birds!”

The Colchis bulls, made by Hephaestus himself.

a wild look in her storm-gray eyes, like she’d just been chased a thousand miles by ghosts.