Percy Jackson (3): The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

Author:Rick Riordan [Riordan, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
ISBN: 9780141919133
Published: 2007-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

The Titan's Curse

back, and she looked me right in the eyes when she spoke. With a shiver, I realized that five hundred or a thousand years from now, Bianca di Angelo would look exactly the same as she did today. She might be having a conversation like this with some other half-blood long after I was dead, but Bianca would still look twelve years old. “Nico didn't understand my decision,” Bianca murmured. She looked at me like she wanted assurance it was okay. “He'll be all right,” I said. “Camp Half-Blood takes in a lot of young kids. They did that for Annabeth.” Bianca nodded. “I hope we find her. Annabeth, I mean. She's lucky to have a friend like you.” “Lot of good it did her.” “Don't blame yourself Percy. You risked your life to save my brother and me. I mean, that was seriously brave. If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't have felt okay about leaving Nico at the camp. I figured if there were people like you there, Nico would be fine. You're a good guy.” The compliment took me by surprise. “Even though I knocked you down in capture the flag?” She laughed. “Okay. Except for that, you're a good guy.” A couple hundred yards away, Grover and Zoe came out of the coffee shop loaded down with pastry bags and drinks. I kind of didn't want them to come back yet. It was weird, but I realized I liked talking to Bianca. She wasn't so bad. A lot easier to hang out with than Zoe Nightshade, anyway. “So what's the story with you and Nico?” I asked her. “Where did you go to school before Westover?” She frowned. “I think it was a boarding school in D.C. It seems like so long ago.” “You never lived with your parents? I mean, your mortal parent?” “We were told our parents were dead. There was a bank trust for us. A lot of money, I think. A lawyer would come by once in a while to check on us. Then Nico and I had to leave that school.” “Why?” She knit her eyebrows. “We had to go somewhere. I remember it was important. We traveled a long way. And we stayed in this hotel for a few weeks. And then… I don't know. One day a different lawyer came to get us out. He said it was time for us to leave. He drove us back east, through D.C. Then up into Maine. And we started going to Westover.” It was a strange story. Then again, Bianca and Nico were half-bloods. Nothing would be normal for them.

“So you've been raising Nico pretty much all your life?” I asked. “Just the two of you?” She nodded. “That's why I wanted to join the Hunters so bad. I mean, I know it's selfish, but I wanted my own life and friends. I love Nico—don't get me wrong—I just needed to find out what it would be like not to be a big sister twenty-four hours a day.

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