The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1)
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Read between June 3 - June 5, 2025
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Every time some hero wins the laurels, I am reminded of the girl I can never win.
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‘Rhea,’ I croaked.
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The kid grew up with a strong Aquarian vibe.’
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‘It’s them. They’re doing it.’
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‘The Man, man. Big Brother. The suits. The imperators.’
Mabel
No puedo creer que Rhea sea una hippie y diga "man"
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‘That’s their new military-industrial complex. It’s bumming me out in a big way.’
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Has being a god ever stopped someone from being stupid?’
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even though that whole concept is imperialist Eurocentric propaganda,
Mabel
si
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I’m not going to get sucked into that patriarchal institutional oppression again.
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wind chimes – a collection of hollow brass tubes and medallions engraved with Ancient Greek and Cretan symbols.
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Only when you have defeated Python can you reclaim your rightful place on Olympus.
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‘The Beast is planning some kind of attack on your camp.
Mabel
bro. Esos niños no pueden descansar ni un año man
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Chiara Benvenuti, who jumped back in alarm. ‘Apollo?’
Mabel
se nota que Apollo se muere por ella
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‘Seek the caverns,’ he said. ‘Near the springs of blue. Oh, Apollo … your sanity will be taken away, but do not …’
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Seeing them together, supporting each other, made my heart feel even heavier.
Mabel
Rick... siento que estás forzando mucho que la gente quiera esta relación...
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but Chiron wouldn’t let us.’
Mabel
lo odio
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emperors have returned. Or rather they never went away. They’ve been plotting,
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‘Gods are sustained by worship,
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‘The worst of my descendants.’
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‘The Christians called him the Beast because he burned them alive. Our enemy is Emperor Nero.’
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It was carved from mountain laurel wood. The bitter irony appealed to me.
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But my oath to save Meg McCaffrey had to come first.
Mabel
wow Amix, wow
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I turned my face to the sky. ‘If you want to punish me, Father, be my guest, but have the courage to hurt me directly, not my mortal companion. BE A MAN!’
Mabel
damn ! wow al fin algo de character development
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To Tartarus with him. I had work to do.
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I’ve found that when one is searching for danger it’s never hard to find.
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It was a bit tougher for Lester Papadopoulos, dork teen extraordinaire,
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The tunnels amplified my voice, carrying it through the nest, making the entire hill my musical instrument.
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‘Clever girl,’ I said, choosing that tunnel.
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had to get the blues, good and proper.
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For the first time in four thousand years, I sang of my own faults.
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When she ran from me, I should have let her go.
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I was the worst of the gods, the most guilt-ridden and unfocused. I couldn’t commit myself to one lover.
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I kept shifting from one skill to another – distracted and dissatisfied.
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My heart was a lump of petr...
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‘I’m so sorry.’
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‘Why, dear Meg? You did nothing wrong. I failed you.’
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Apollo, if I’d known
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(I never liked the Spartans much.)
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Besides, I thought, I don’t want to risk losing you again.
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I began to rap. I started with the rhythm boom chicka chicka.
Mabel
chao
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The queen arched her back. I don’t think she had expected to be rapped to today.
Mabel
yo tampoco lo esperaba tbh
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channelling my love for my own dear mother, Leto.
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I would never have such a partner. It was not in my destiny.
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Arrayed in front of us were the missing demigods,
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execution
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‘Germani.’
Mabel
Gracias a Celeste sé que los Germanos son bien lámpara y bárbaros
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‘A god-emperor?’ I growled. ‘You mean a delusional ex-emperor.’
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My barbarian friends are loyal subjects of the Julian dynasty! And, of course, we are all descended from you, Lord Apollo.’
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‘Triumvirates have never worked. They always lead to civil war.’
Mabel
lit, pregúntale a Marco Antonio
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we’ll expand and do what Romans have always done best – conquer the world.’