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"We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence." -Madeline Miller
Book 1 of the LUNACY SERIES
Percy x fem!oc
PJO book 1 - book 5
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The metal door was half hidden behind a laundry bin full of dirty hotel towels. Andromeda didn't see anything strange about it, but Rachel showed them where to look, and she recognized the faint blue symbol etched in the metal.
"It hasn't been used in a long time," Annabeth said.
"I tried to open it once," Rachel said, "just out of curiosity. It's rusted shut."
"No." Annabeth stepped forward. "It just needs the touch of a half-blood."
Sure enough, as soon as Annabeth put her hand on the mark, it glowed blue. The metal door unsealed and creaked open, revealing a dark staircase leading down.
"Wow." Rachel looked calm, but Andromeda couldn't tell if she was pretending or not. She'd changed into a ratty Museum of Modern Art T-shirt and her regular marker-colored jeans, her blue plastic hairbrush sticking out of her pocket. Her red hair was tied back, but she still had flecks of gold in it, and traces of the gold glitter on her face. "So...after you?"
"You're the guide," Annabeth said with mock politeness. "Lead on."
The stairs led down to a large brick tunnel. It was so dark they couldn't see two feet in front of them, but Annabeth and Percy had restocked on flashlights. As soon as they switched them on, Rachel yelped.
A skeleton was grinning at them. It wasn't human. It was huge, for one thing—at least ten feet tall. It had been strung up, chained by its wrists and ankles so it made a kind of giant X over the tunnel. But what really sent shivers down the redhead's spine was the single black eye socket in the centre of its skull.
"A Cyclops," Annabeth said. "It's very old. It's not...anybody we know."
It wasn't Tyson, she meant. But that didn't make Percy feel much better. He still felt like it had been put here as a warning. Whatever could kill a grown Cyclops, he didn't want to meet. He quickly remembered he wasn't the only one with a brother in the labyrinth and glanced at Andromeda, who had placed her headphones back on.
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