The Son of Sobek (Demigods & Magicians, #1)

by Rick Riordan

But they were all at the First Nome, in Egypt, for a weeklong training session on controlling cheese demons (yes, they’re a real thing; believe me, you don’t want to know), so I was on my own.

After all the dangerous adventures I’d had, I couldn’t die like this. Sadie would be devastated. Then, once she got over her grief, she’d track down my soul in the Egyptian afterlife and tease me mercilessly for how stupid I’d been.

I mean I literally punched him out of his shoes.

“Deal. Now, could you please untie my sword hand from my head? I feel like a freaking unicorn.

Getting eaten twice in one day would be very embarrassing.

Not exactly my finest tactical move; but having a hippo shoved up his nose must have been sufficiently distracting.

If nothing else, we would die knowing that we’d confused this monster many, many times.

“Stay strange, my friend.