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The lights of the city were blinking on. I guess they were on automatic timers. The streetlamps in the park glowed, making the lanes and the trees look spooky – like we needed any more spookiness.
Thalia stopped and tensed, like she was catching a scent. “I’ll be back. Need to check the Hunters on the right flank.”
Her bow appeared in her hands and she disappeared into the trees.
We stepped over bodies of sleeping New Yorkers, moving them to safety when we could. We were just coming to a stone bridge on the northern side of the park when we came across a dozen kids, all slumped next to a pretzel stand, like they’d been lined up to buy snacks.
Grover yelped. “Percy . . . look.”
He crouched next to a girl with orange hair and freckles. She reminded me a little of Clarisse, because she was a big girl, like she was built for tackle football.
And then my eyes widened. “Oh my gods. It’s . . . Nancy?”
I hadn’t seen her in four years, but I still recognized her. Nancy Bobofit, a bully who’d made my life miserable in sixth grade. Grover and I had been at Yancy Academy, and she would pick on us mercilessly. She’d been around the first day I suspected that I was a demigod.
“Who’s Nancy?” Annabeth asked.
“A girl we used to know,” Grover muttered. “Not a very nice girl.”
I looked at the other sleeping kids. Some I’d never seen, but a few looked familiar.
“This is our class from Yancy,” I said. “They must’ve been on the summer trip.”
“Yeah,” Grover said. He pointed to a lady in a flowery dress. “Here’s Mrs. Watt. She always chaperoned the summer New York trip. If we’d stayed at Yancy . . .”
He didn’t finish the thought. We both knew that was impossible. We didn’t live normal lives. We never would’ve made it through middle school without monsters destroying us or the school or both. Still, it was strange looking at my former classmates. I never went backward. Once I left a school, I always tried to leave it behind for good. Besides, the memories were usually bad. But looking at the kids who’d kept going, even stupid old Nancy Bobofit, I felt a wave of sadness wash over me.
“They’re right in the path of the battle,” Grover said, and he looked at me to see what I’d suggest.
“We have to move them,” I said. “Under the bridge, maybe. They’ll be safer.”
“After all she did to us,” Grover mused, “it kind of serves her right to be stomped by a titan army.”
“But we can’t.”
He sighed. “Yeah. You’re right. Maybe . . . draw a moustache on her, at least?”
Four years ago, it would’ve been tempting. Now, I realized that I didn’t hate Nancy anymore. I was a different person. She was a mortal in the path of danger – we were the only thing between her and destruction.
“No moustaches,” I said. “Annabeth, give me a hand?”
She was studying me carefully, trying to read my thoughts, but she didn’t say anything. She just helped me drag the school group to safety.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOO The House of Hades come out yesterday! Im halfway through the book and absolutely love it! The best so far in my opinion. POV will surprise you along with lots more!
Also RR continues to prove that Nico and Reyna are my favorite character ever. so complex and diverse they are making this book great so far
RR twitter said:are you thinking about writing any more about percy jackson and carter kane's meeting? /Working on a follow-up story right now....
The new covers apparently connect:
Damn, I have two sets of the books (1 hardcover and 1 paperback) but the covers are making me want these ones! Am I crazy?
See i have TLT and TLO in hardcover and the inbtwn in paperback so id get a whole set!
Off topic probably: So are they continuing in making "The Titan's Curse" into a movie? On one hand, I don't want them to, as I don't want them to ruin it, like they have the other books through the movies.
But on the other hand, I LOVE TTC, and it's that point of the series and onward that I think really makes PJ shine. To that end, I sort of want to see it as a movie. IDK. I could maybe tolerate them butchering the film, just to be able to see Nico and Bianca di Angelo, Thalia Grace, Zoë Nightshade, and Rachel Elizabeth Dare. LOL.
Also, sorry about the following noob question (as I've just recently gotten into the series), but are The Kane Chronicles connected to PJ at all, or are they a thing on their own? And is there a series I should be reading between PJ and The Heroes of Olympus? I don't think there is (and I'm actually reading TLH at the moment), but I just want to be sure. Also, are these three series the only books that Rick Riordan has out so far?