![]() ![]() I will be much kinder and more generous than everyone is being to me-especially that sorceress Calypso. or I really just don’t feel like doing it myself. And unless I am sure the mortal can handle it. I vow that if I ever regain my godhood, I will never again send a poor mortal on a quest. Shouldn’t there be a reward at the end of each completed task? Not just more deadly quests? Oh, the indignities and pain I have already suffered! Untold humiliation, impossible time limits, life-threatening danger. Despite all this, if I have a chance of prying her away from her villainous stepfather, I have to try.īut I’m new at this heroic-quest business, and my father, Zeus, stripped me of all my godly powers. And while I’m mortal, she can order me to do anything. She betrayed me to Nero back at Camp Half-Blood. Meg, my demigod master, is a cantankerous street urchin. But why would an ancient Roman emperor zero in on Indianapolis? And now that I have made it here (still in the embarrassing form of Lester Papadopoulos), where is Meg? Those were the orders my old enemy Nero had given to Meg McCaffrey. If you cannot bring him to me alive, kill him. Capture Apollo before he can find the next oracle. ![]()
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