Monday, May 21, 2012

The Lightning Thief - Chapter 22

Chapter 22 THE PROPHECY COMES TRUE   We were the first heroes to return alive to Half-Blood Hill since Luke, so of course everybody treatedus as if we'd won some reality-TV contest. According to camp tradition, we wore laurel wreaths to a bigfeast prepared in our honor, then led a procession down to the bonfire, where we got to...

The Lightning Thief - Chapter 21

Chapter 21 I SETTLE  MY TAB It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality. Chironhad told me that long ago. As usual, I didn't appreciate his wisdom until much later. According to the L.A. news, the explosion at the Santa Monica beach had been caused when a crazykidnapper...

The Lightning Thief - Chapter 20

Chapter 20 I BATTLE MY JERK RELATIVE   A Coast Guard boat picked us up, but they were too busy to keep us for long, or to wonder how threekids in street clothes had gotten out into the middle of the bay. There was a disas-ter to mop up. Theirradios were jammed with distress calls. They dropped us off at the Santa Monica Pier...

The Lightning Thief - Chapter 19

Chapter 19 WE FIND OUT THETRUTH,  SORT OF   Imagine the largest concert crowd you've ever seen, a foot-ball field packed with a million fans. Now imagine a field a million times that big, packed with people, and imagine the electricity has goneout, and there is no noise, no light, no beach ball bouncing around over the...