The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1)
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Read between June 3 - June 5, 2025
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‘It’s called tuning.’
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Damien and Chiara were weeping in each other’s arms, hitting each other weakly and cursing, ‘I hate you. I hate you.’
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We became part of the music, communicating on a level only gods and musicians will ever understand.
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They had the insufferably appropriate names Holly and Laurel Victor.
Mabel
chch jaja
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Winners don’t complain.’
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I swear upon the River Styx – until I am a god again, I will not use a bow or a musical instrument!’
Mabel
cojudo
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You did this to me. Come. Chase me again.
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‘No. Ellis. Got to find him. Miranda. My girl.’
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after he sleepwalked into Artemis’s private chambers
Mabel
luego por qué es loca mi amiga
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‘I think I understand now,’ I said. ‘I know why those campers went missing.’
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‘About the woods,’ I said. ‘Yes, I’m sorry, Apollo. I understand you are concerned –’
Mabel
Que arrechera Chiron
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‘You mean the teams in the Labyrinth?’ ‘No. You guys are on your own. This is for Leo.’
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For six months, the boy had been working on a beacon to help his missing brother Leo. I wondered if anyone would work so hard to bring me back home to Olympus.
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Another Oracle, even older than Delphi. It involved trees. An entire grove of talking trees.’
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The whispering voices, though … they are from this hidden Oracle.
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some magical acne cream
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You can never be too careful with children of Athena.
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Those Athena children always had a plan.
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Do not end up in Peru.’ ‘Do not end up in Peru,’ everyone chanted.
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We stood at the omphalus – the navel of the ancient world.
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‘Apple,’ she hissed.
Mabel
no soporto a Meg
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another voice, smaller and much closer to human. ‘Hello, my reptilian friend.’
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but I always appreciated it when humans sacrificed themselves to save me.
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man
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Monsieur Beast.’
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Meg seemed to have turned to bronze. Her eyes were wide with fear.
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‘Before we proceed, we must have all the Oracles under our control.’
Mabel
secuestraron a Rachel chov
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He is exactly where I need him to be. He will serve our purpose, and once he is no longer useful …’
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‘I have well-placed help within the camp who will steer Apollo towards us.
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My organization is everywhere. My colleagues stand ready. When we control all four Oracles, we will control fate itself!’
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She looked as if she’d just gone through Hades’s haunted house. (Pro tip: DO NOT.)
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I also detected the faint smell of urine,
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‘Yes, we do, my friend. But first, I fear one more team is still missing … your children, Kayla and Austin.’
Mabel
hpta y todo esto es tu culpa Chiron
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I have upped the stakes. Apollo will have no choice.
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I had to find my children … my friends.
Mabel
wow Apollo, lo único redimible de ti
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We’re shorthanded for healers.
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Will changed his surgical gloves and glared at the woods.
Mabel
tiene 15 años man...
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Besides, it’s every god’s dream to have a child who grows up to be a doctor.
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Then he hugged me so hard he nearly rebroke my ribs, and he dashed away.
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Chiron’s expression tightened. ‘My friend, you’re exhausted and unprepared. Go back to your cabin. It will serve no purpose –’
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no lo soporto
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‘I should have listened to you before the race. You tried to warn me. What – what did you discover?’
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man
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‘It’s my fault Python retook Delphi,’
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sip
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‘If you’re a demigod on the streets, you hear about the Beast. He takes people like me.’
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‘He killed my dad.’
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Not all monsters were three-ton reptiles with poisonous breath. Many wore human faces.
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Demigods are an unpredictable bunch.
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damn
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Painted on the helicopter’s side was a bright green logo with the letters D.E.
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‘That,’ I told Meg, ‘is Rachel Elizabeth Dare.
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cómo el helicóptero pasó los bordes?
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Miss Dare looked thinner and older
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I get offended whenever art is damaged, especially if that art features me.
Mabel
bruuuh... ves perturbada y flaca a Rachel y solo piensas en eso
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‘Where are Millard and Herbert?’ She bowed her head. ‘They arrived at my house badly wounded. They … they didn’t make it.’
Mabel
qué... qué chch