My Open Book

As soon as Percy let go of the ledge and he and Annabeth fell into Tartarus, my baby sister screamed “No!”

Big fat crocodile tears were (and still are) rolling down her cheeks.

So we finished chapter 51 where they let go, and she closes her copy of the book and rolls over, burying herself under her blankets and says, “No more… I’m done.”

Me: “What do you mean you’re done??? We still have one more chapter!”

Her: “It’s not worth it anymore!”

Needless to say, I coaxed her to finish the last chapter. And now, she has to wait twelve days (1 day for every month I had to wait) until she can read The House of Hades.

Piper: Weak. I sleep with a pistol under my pillow.

Will Solace: You're both pathetic.

Piper: Oh and what do you sleep with Doctor Solace

@yonemurishiroku

Hello Jason Grace,

It’s been over a year since I retired from the main army to the Camp Jupiter reserves. It’s quite a weird experience. I still remember when I first showed up years ago. You were a little kid yet you still greeted me with such enthusiasm and showed me where everything was. Then you continued looking out for us even once we got settled.

It’s weird that I am thinking about you now as I am settled and it's been a long time since the army. I got myself a cupcake the other day and it hit me that this was the same cupcake you would get people for their birthdays. Yeah, their birthday. Somehow you kept track of everyone’s birthdays. We still don’t know how you managed. It wasn’t like you even had a real salary or much free time. 

It’s strange. Back when you were here you were this massive presence. The son of Jupiter. My coworker. My praetor. You always seemed too distant and so closed off. But now that you’re gone. Like “forcibly retired” gone. Well, dead gone it's like all the little things you did for us stand out and all of yourself that you tried to show.

Like your dreams of traveling. Or how excited you got about your heroes even as you pointed out their flaws. Or even that time when you were 10 when you got really attached to a wolf pup and tried convincing us he was a dog. (It was a wolf. We didn’t give him to Lupa. We let him roam free in Yosemite).

Anyway, my point is Happy Birthday Jason. I wish you were here to celebrate it. I have a cupcake for you.

Gwen

Part 1 here

sleeve was done by @alessiajontrunfio !

So like. I just want to ask if anyone’s planning to provide with a pdf of TSATS the day it’s out, because I need to make some preparations if I want to do it and I just want to make sure bc it’s not like I at the same level of rich as Jeff Bezos.