It’s hard to look in charge when you’re hunched over like Quasimodo.

“There," Zoë suggested."By the Embarcadero Building." "Good thinking," Chuck sai…”

“Right,” I said. “So the baboon, the crocodile…any other pets I should know abou…”

“Maybe it's okay to still be a kid every once in a while.”

“So . . . what is this fire river called?”“The Phlegethon,” [Annabeth] said. “Yo…”