I still wondered about their boss, and how he had known where I would fall to earth. I shivered and concentrated on happy thoughts: the Bahamas, the Nine Muses in perfect harmony, the many horrible punishments I would visit on Cade and Mikey when I became a god again. Meg tried to catch the precipitation on her tongue, which I thought a very ineffective way to get a drink of dirty water. Honestly, how do you humans stand it?Īfter a few more blocks, a mixture of sleet and rain began to fall. I felt as if my brain had been stuffed with wet cotton. Mortal fears and needs clouded my thoughts. I wasn’t used to traveling at street level.Īlso, in this mortal form, my flawless memory had become… flawed. I knew that Percy Jackson lived around here somewhere, but my trips across the sky in the sun chariot had given me something of a Google Earth orientation. By the time we reached Second Avenue, the neighborhood started to look familiar-rows of low-rise apartment buildings, run-down hardware shops, convenience stores, and Indian restaurants.
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