Persassy Quotes

Only a thousand

"What are you?" she demanded.

The arai, hissed a voice. The curses!

Annabeth tried to located the speaker, but none of the demons had moved their mouths. Their eyes looked dead; their expressions were frozen, like a puppet's. The voice simply floated over head like a movie narrator's, as if a single mind controlled all the creatures.

"What-what do you want?" Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence.

The voice crackled maliciously. To curse you, of course! To destroy you a thousand times in the name of mother Night!

"Only a thousand times?" Percy murmured. "Oh, good... I thought we were in trouble."

House of Hades