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Dionysus, the god of doing things to annoy Apollo.
The world often has more than one crisis happening at a time. Perhaps you’ve noticed. He said he had an emergency meeting with a cat and a severed head, whatever that means.”
Nico’s smile was a bit of winter sun breaking between snow flurries.
I was given a New York Mets cap because, I was told, no one else wanted it. I found this insulting both to me and the franchise.
“Like you said, either we help each other, or we let a snake eat the future.”
We attracted some strange looks from other pedestrians, which was fair since we were still dripping wet and smelled like a troglodyte’s armpit. Nevertheless, this being New York, most people ignored us.
“Okay! Who else is here? Tell me! Tell me!” I felt like he was guiding me toward my own birthday party, and I was dying to know the guest list. Also, I felt like I was dying!
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The imperial demigods faltered, looking at each other for direction like, Who do we attack? The bull? The emo kid? Dad? Each other? (This is the problem when you raise your children to be paranoid murderers.)
“No one hits my boyfriend,” Will thundered. “And no one kills my dad!”
I was definitely not bringing my A-game. In fact, I had been so far below my A-game for so long, I could barely remember any letters north of LMNOP.
I imagined, somewhere far above us, Greek villagers freezing in their tracks as my voice echoed from the ruins of the holy site, olive trees shuddering and losing their fruit. The Lord of Delphi had awoken.
I rose to my feet—I don’t know how—and found myself on a blade of obsidian, jutting over an endless churning sea of umber and violet. With a combination of horror and fascination, I realized I was standing on the brink of Chaos.
the essence of everything: the great cosmic soup from which all else had spawned, the place where life first began to form and think, Hey, I am separate from the rest of this soup! One step off this ledge, and I would rejoin that soup.
“I TOLD YOU SO.” I never doubted those would be the last words I heard.
My first surprise: I woke. People who have been dissolved into Chaos typically don’t do that.
Call on me. I will be there for you.
Why am I actually crying
