Daughter of the Deep

by Rick Riordan

“Imagine a world government monopolizing that power. Even worse, a corporation.”

Oh I do appreciate Mr. Riordan!

Oh, hooray. Deeper into a grumpy submarine.

Got a chuckle

“That’s very helpful. Thank you.” “You’re welcome.” One of Ester’s many superpowers: She is impervious to sarcasm.

:-)

As for me, I plodded along, carefully and mathematically, treating the keyboard like another language, learning each song like a sentence to be diagrammed.

I’m a consolation prize. A last-ditch, third-string quarterback for Harding-Pencroft.

but moral and ethical!!

Franklin knows how to clear a room.

laughed

“Engine room,” Nelinha responds, “rig for dive, aye.”

They all watched Star Trek lol Well, maybe except for Ester. :-)

Do we have any shieldy things?” “Shieldy things…” Gem frowns at his console. “Um, I don’t—”

Definite spontaneous cackle!! :-)

“Hey, sis,” says Dev. “You did a great job. But now it’s time to give up.”

Fucker.

“I warned the school, Ana.

uh huh, way too late

are not our friends,

there is no our

our family’s inheritance

They want to use our tech to make the world better.

BS

Yours and mine.”

Nope not a chance that would be the case.

My brother is alive, and a traitor, and a mass murderer.

nope, no forgive. Ever.

when my brother is the cause of all our problems

well, and his buddies!

I wonder if this is how Ester feels all the time.

Excellent understanding. Or certainly attempt at it.

I have a feeling it had more to do with Dev. I can imagine him putting conditions on his cooperation

duh. Bully

I’m thinking of him as our enemy now.

well, he IS

his positive facade for my sake,

I don't think so........

But they also want to be Nemo.”

Then again, our labels always depend on who’s doing the labeling. Patriot, freedom fighter, terrorist, thug.

Nemo’s caution—paranoia, even.

I go with caution.

“So does Dev, I bet,

What HE (emphasis on the gender)

Such a common thing to want,

hope that maybe someday human nature would improve to the point where we could handle his power.

Oh w-e-l-l..... Before Donald Trump, I wasn't so bitter.

but they understand I don’t want any other recognition.

I had a good staff and staff colleagues at Antioch (one good thing about it). They brought me a fruit custard tart. :-)

we finish de-gunking

my kinda language :-)

we have boots with squid-inspired jet propulsion (naturally).

grin

I never realized how much of leadership is learning to sound confident when you’re actually terrified.

akin to repeating to oneself, I can do this, I can do this.

Nelinha scowls at Gem. “Does she have nitrogen narcosis? Did you break my Ana?”

True laugh!

“I don’t think so,” Gem says. “She was like that when I found her.”

That ship belongs to me.

He is SOOOO wrong. And so damned patriarchal. In other words--F him

Dev isn’t worried about me or any of the other lives on the Nautilus.

Ya think? Duh.

The silver harpoon impales the seat where I was sitting a moment before, discharging a fractal lacework of blue lightning.

And this tells is all we need to know about how he feels about his sister.

Gem frowns at his ruined T-shirt. “I knew that.”

Sweet :-)

He likes me being his needy little sister—the junior Dakkar.

We’re going to board the Nautilus together, and you’re going to surrender command to me. I will take what’s rightfully mine.”

See!?? mine

I shoot him three times. The last rubber bullet snaps his head back, raising an ugly red spot right between his eyes. He falls backward, crashing spread-eagled on the deck.

Yea, Ana!

hunger for power did to my brother. Humans are still not ready for all of Nemo’s advances. I don’t know what Land Institute’s school motto is, but I want it to be This is why we can’t have nice things.