#emmie pjo

But instead of romantic love

Is just a bunch of ladies wanting to adopt this poor child

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"BEING PRODUCTIVE. Ugh." Okay, we're immediately on the same page.

"I never found out what sort of bugs were in the bug juice" A shame.

"Soon I would be stuck between Emmie and Calypso discussing kale-growing techniques and Leo and Josephine waxing poetic about carburetors." This is Leo getting revenge for the three books he spent stuck as the seventh wheel. And before we move on, CARBURETOR (n.): a device used by an internal combustion engine to control and mix air and fuel entering the engine

"Speak of the daimon" I like this substitute. "All da cows love Leo." Since cows are ladies, of course they would love Leo. "And these cows are red, man." Uhh, aren't red cows Apollo's thing? Like, these are Apollo's cows, right? This is either very good or very bad. "Red cows were my favorite. For centuries I had a herd" Oh, so not all of them. Just one particular herd. These are not his, then. Apollo getting teary-eyed about red little cows is the best freaking thing, though.

"I will make a constellation out of you. I will call it the Small Exploding Latino." "I like it!" Unfazed. Notable how turning someone into a constellation can be used as both a threat and a great honor. Or maybe the great honor is why Leo is unfazed. Also, here we have confirmation of what I was wondering earlier. Despite being the god of the sun, Apollo can still create constellations. So can other gods, probably.

"the last three millennia of popular music" That's a... lot. Does Calypso have the brain space to learn all that? Does Apollo have the brain space to remember all that to teach her?

"Leo cut the cheese. (You can interpret that any way you want.)" What other ways are there to interpret that? What does "cut the cheese" mean? CUT THE CHEESE (Canada, US, euphemistic, slang): to fart (flatulate) I'm from the US and I've never heard of this.

"bright red all the way through" Mama, where does chocolate milk come from? Why, from brown cows, of course!

"The cheddar wheel turned out to be bright red all the way through and quite tasty." "sweet red cream" I wonder if there are any blue cows out there that the Jacksons might be interested in.

"as if it were a third-place prize from a three-person competition." I'm loving these similes.

"the Triumvirate had sabotaged all forms of communication used by demigods . . . ventriloquist puppets" First of all, how did the Triumvirate sabotage all of this? What kind of arcane magic stops ALL IRIS MESSAGES along with literally everything else? Also, I want to know what demigod is using ventriloquism as a form of long-distance communication.

"Apollo, show them your talking arrow." So he did bring it!

"They dropped their forks and covered their ears." "Never before has any voice dared to utter a limerick in this house, Apollo." I WANT TO KNOW. WHAT GRIEVANCE. RICK RIORDAN. HAS AGAINST LIMERICKS. They're not that bad! They're a lot of fun, actually! Is this, like, some kind of childhood English class trauma? Stuck for hours trying to get the perfect limerick to hand in the next day and still gets a D-? Limericks as the do-now assignment starting off every class or something?

"Apollo will be forced death and madness to swallow." Isn't it Festus that has to swallow death and madness? It does say, The bronze fire-eater / Was forced death and madness to swallow.

"before the emperor moved in" So the Triumvirate took over relatively recently? Indianapolis hasn't been theirs for decades and decades?

"That cave literally drove our daughter mad." Oh no, the poor girl went crazy? Is that why she's still making crayon drawings? Will they be able to restore her sanity by the end of this book?

"might be a portent of what I would soon face." PORTENT (n.): a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen

"We used to have a dozen or so living here at any given time." There are supposed to be more people in the Waystation????? "Our griffins." That's where they get the griffins on the cover! "Heloise and Abelard." They've got namessssss!!!!!!!

"Agamethus helped her." "It was ordained" Brieanna helped Georgina sneak out without her parents' permission to go see a scary, dangerous, underwater cave Oracle? Who was it ordained by? You better not say "the emperor." Don't you turn traitor on us now, Brieanna.

"It can't be Com--" Commodus! He's from the Read Riordan quiz! "Maybe Heloise and Abelard are back?" Ma'am, I know your griffins are big, but they cannot shake the entire building and block out the sun.

"Emmie and Jo were so resentful--not just of Britomartis but also of us" Why would they be resentful of them? Or is this just Apollo being an unreliable narrator and being upset that they had to do chores lol?

"she got to plant mung beans all afternoon with Emmie. I ask you, how is that fair?" She's recovering from breaking, like, two limbs. Cut her some slack. Also, mung bean is delicious. "'See you in the morning,' as if this was a huge concession . . . I didn't see how anyone could act so haughty" Is this actually her tone or does Apollo just hate her that much? Also, Apollo of all people has no right to call anyone haughty.

"That's right. We had to share, which I took as another sign of our hosts' displeasure." Okay, this seals the deal. Emmie and Jo aren't actually upset with them at all. It's just Apollo being a little bitch.

"If I get itchy in the middle of the night, I'll just burst into flames." Leo is a fire hazard. We already knew this, but I felt like it needed reiterating. Nobody should be letting him into their home without very careful consideration.

"You watch. Calypso will still save your sorry butt tomorrow." Either Leo has seen Calypso pull some crazy shit in the Sea of Monsters or Apollo has been acting that pathetic. Or both. Can she still do magic, though? I doubt removing your immortality would also remove your magical powers since non-immortals have also proved proficient in magic, but maybe you have to have at least some divine blood to be able to do it and that's why she hasn't tried any magic singing?

"Even my sun chariot got a bit tetchy" TETCHY (adj.): bad-tempered and irritable

"You need time for maintenance. You haven't had a chance to find out who you are as a couple without all the danger and constant movement." I knew it! I knew it must have taken a toll on their relationship. I hope these two get their much-needed maintenance time. Leo especially, because not only has he spent the past year and a half in the middle of either constant danger or preparing for constant danger, but his entire life before that was also moving from place to place in horrible conditions. Please, please, please let him rest.