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The horizon line was hazy that morning, the line blurring between the sea and sky. When Saros was little, her mom told her that whenever the sky looked like that, the line between the afterlife and earth was also blurred, and the spirits voices were louder than normal in her head. Now, Saros suspected that it was just a ruse to charge people more money for her readings, but that was typical Mom.  A lilting voice floa...

Percy looked around the massive cavern warily, his skin prickling with unease at the thought of being so far underground. He tried to dispel the image of the rocks collapsing on top of him out of his mind, suppressing a shudder at the thought of being trapped here forever. All around him, the voices of helpful vayrons called out back and forth as they moved to slowly drag rocks away from the massive figure hidden in the shadowy depths of the cave. As Percy’s e...

The sand was hot beneath Jesse’s paws. As he shifted from side to side, decorative metal ornaments clinked and chimed from where they hung off of the heavy packs piled across his shoulders. The small pieces of metal and colored glass reflected months of painstaking work, of hunched shoulders and cramped paws and squinted eyes trying to see if the carved edges, infinitesimally delicate, would hold in their metal cage. Jesse knew each artisan, and could recogniz...