If you asked most kids,
“Hey, you want to summon fire or lightning or magical makeup?” they'd think it sounded pretty cool.
But those powers went along with hard stuff, like sitting in a sewer in the middle of winter, running from monsters, losing your memory, watching your friends almost get cooked, and having dreams that warned you of your own death.
- The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, Chapter XXVI pg. 288
