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The Lightning Thief Songbook
The Percy Jackson Musical - Vocal Selections
byAnonim
- Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
- Release : 2018-10-01
- Pages : 104
- ISBN : 154004081X
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
(Vocal Selections). A dozen vocal selections are included in this songbook featuring music and lyrics by Rob Rokicki for his off-Broadway musical adapted from the 2005 fantasy-adventure novel of the same name. Includes: Bring on the Monsters * D.O.A. * Drive * Good Kid * Killer Quest! * Lost! * My Grand Plan * Prologue/The Day I Got Expelled * Put You in Your Place * Son of Poseidon * Strong * The Tree on the Hill.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
- Publisher : Puffin Books
- Release : 2009-12-01
- Pages : 374
- ISBN : 9780141329994
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek god. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That's when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends and generally trying to stay alive. This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea. Can Percy find the lightning bolt before a fully fledged WAR OF THE GODS ERUPTS? Follow the author on his blog Also available: Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (audio) Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (film tie-in) Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse Percy Jackson: The Demigod Files
Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Lightning Thief Illustrated Edition
- Publisher : Disney-Hyperion
- Release : 2018-08-14
- Pages : 240
- ISBN : 9781484787786
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school . . . again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves. This deluxe gift edition of the internationally best-selling first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, lavishly illustrated by series artist John Rocco, is a must-have for Riordan fans.
The Lightning Thief
- Publisher : Unknown Publisher
- Release : 2015
- Pages : 375
- ISBN : 9781484733400
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1)
- Publisher : Penguin UK
- Release : 2008-05-01
- Pages : 384
- ISBN : 0141924403
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
Coming soon to Disney+! Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is the first bestselling book in Rick Riordan's phenomenally successful Percy Jackson series. Half boy. Half God. ALL Hero. Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. Now I spend my time battling monsters and generally trying to stay alive. This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea. ----- Rick Riordan has now sold an incredible 55 million copies of his books worldwide 'It's Buffy meets Artemis Fowl. Thumbs up' Sunday Times ----- Books by Rick Riordan: The Percy Jackson series: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian Percy Jackson: The Demigod Files The Heroes of Olympus series: The Lost Hero The Son Of Neptune The Mark of Athena The Heroes of Olympus: The Demigod Files The Kane Chronicles series: The Red Pyramid The Throne of Fire The Serpent's Shadow The Magnus Chase series: Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor Magnus Chase and the Ship of the Dead The Trials of Apollo series: The Dark Prophecy The Hidden Oracle The Burning Maze
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One: Lightning Thief
- Publisher : Disney-Hyperion
- Release : 2005-06-14
- Pages : 384
- ISBN : 9780786856299
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse-Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends -- one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena -- Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians:
Collecting The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, and The Titans' Curse
byRick Riordan
- Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
- Release : 2014-09-16
- Pages : 1568
- ISBN : 1484727215
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
Humans and half-bloods agree—Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a series fit for heroes! Relive the adventure from the beginning with this eBook set containing the first three books from the best-selling series: The Lighting Thief, The Sea of Monsters, and The Titan's Curse.
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel
- Publisher : Hyperion
- Release : 2010-10-12
- Pages : 128
- ISBN : 9781423117100
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
You've read the book. You've seen the movie. Now submerge yourself in the thrilling, stunning, and action-packed graphic novel. Mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking out of the pages of twelve-year-old Percy Jackson's textbooks and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now, he and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. Series creator Rick Riordan joins forces with some of the biggest names in the comic book industry to tell the story of a boy who must unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.
The Lightning Thief
Study Guide and Student Workbook (Enhanced Ebook)
byAnonim
- Publisher : BMI Educational Services
- Release : 2011-03
- Pages : 329
- ISBN : 160933907X
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
The Lightning Thief - Literature Kit Gr. 5-6
- Publisher : Classroom Complete Press
- Release : 2019-11-28
- Pages : 55
- ISBN : 0228304989
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
Be encouraged to rise above failure and show just what you're made of. The provided Before and After reading activities really help to build student's reading comprehension. Make connections between the novel and well-known Greek myths by identifying the significance of the three old ladies Percy sees knitting. Make predictions about the plot by deciding whether Percy will find out about his parentage. Go back through the novel and make a list of clues that show the author's use of foreshadowing. Put key events from the novel in the order they occurred as Percy learns about his quest. Compare the Greek gods from the novel with their Roman counterparts. Detail some of the ways the gods of Olympus influenced events in the story, and how these influences impacted plot development. Aligned to your State Standards, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. About the Novel: The Lightning Thief follows the mythical adventures of a young boy with a legendary destiny. Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is close to being kicked out of another boarding school. But his real concern is the figures from Greek mythology who seem intent on killing him. On a school trip, Percy is attacked by one of his chaperones. He learns this person is really a Fury—a Greek deity of vengeance. With a magic sword tossed to him by his Latin teacher, Percy successfully kills the creature. He soon learns that he is, in fact, a demigod—half human and half Greek god. He makes his way to a summer camp for other demigods. Here he learns of his true parentage and why he struggles so much in school. Things get even stranger for Percy when he is thrust into a quest that can either save the world, or doom him forever.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One: Lightning Thief, The (Movie Tie-In Edition)
- Publisher : Hyperion
- Release : 2010-01-05
- Pages : 400
- ISBN : 9781423134947
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
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After learning that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea, Percy Jackson is sent to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, and becomes involved in a quest to prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.
The Lightning Thief
- Publisher : Turtleback Books
- Release : 2006
- Pages : 377
- ISBN : 9781417732470
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
After learning that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea, Percy Jackson is transferred from boarding school to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, and becomes involved in a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One: The Lightning Thief (Movie Tie-in Edi
- Publisher : Hyperion Book CH
- Release : 2010-03-16
- Pages : 377
- ISBN : 9781423141877
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
- Publisher : Puffin Books
- Release : 2010
- Pages : 120
- ISBN : 9780141335391
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
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GET BOOKLook, I didn't want to be half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a greek god. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That's when things really started going wrong. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends, and generally trying to stay alive. This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea. Can Percy find the lightning bolt before fully fledged war of the gods erupts? 'It's Buffy meets Artemis Fowl. Thumbs up.' Sunday Times
Quicklet on Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief
- Publisher : Hyperink Inc
- Release : 2011-12-06
- Pages : 42
- ISBN : 1614641803
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
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Quicklets: Learn More. Read Less. The Lightning Thief started out as a bedtime story for Rick Riordan's oldest son. After writing adult mysteries for some time, Riordan decided to try his hand at children's fiction. Making up a tale for his son was the perfect place to begin. The story takes ancient Greek mythology and brings it into the modern world. Riordan creates a here-and-now in which gods and creatures of myth and legend are still active, though perhaps not in the ways we would expect. The Greek gods' palace on Mount Olympus has shifted to the new center of Western civilization the United States, but the gods still get up to their old tricks. They still fight, and fall in love, and have children with mortal humans. The story of one half-human, half-god boy, Perseus Jackson, is the basis of The Lightning Thief. Riordan takes a fantastic what-if idea 'what if the Greek gods still existed and had half-divine children in the modern world?' and creates a rousing adventure tale of friendship, courage, and doing what's right. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nicole has been writing since she could make letters with a pencil, and has been making a living at it for more than ten years. She has gone back to school too many times, studying archaeology, folklore, writing and visual art. She writes fiction under several pen names, and also does printmaking, book arts, and photography. She's an avid amateur natural historian with a particular fascination for things that fly, whether it's birds, bats or insects. And if it's possible to be both a luddite, with a love for the low-tech, and a technophile, with a fascination for everything new and shiny, Nicole is both. She reads too many books, plays too many video games, and watches too much anime.
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters: The Graphic Novel (Book 2)
- Publisher : Penguin UK
- Release : 2014-01-30
- Pages : 128
- ISBN : 0141352078
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
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GET BOOKThe Sea of Monsters: The Graphic Novel sees Percy Jackson come to life in this explosive graphic novel adaptation of Rick Riordan's blockbuster title. Now a major film starring Logan Lerman. You can't tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It's not easy being a half-blood these days. Even a simple game of dodgeball becomes a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants - and that was only the beginning. Now Camp Half-Blood is under attack, and unless I can get my hands on the Golden Fleece, the whole camp will be invaded by monsters. Big ones . . . Featuring a faithful adaptation by Robert Venditti, stunning artwork by Attila Futaki, and sumptuous colours by newcomer Tamas Gaspar. 'Puns, jokes and subtle wit, alongside a gripping storyline' Telegraph Rick Riordan has now sold an incredible 55 million copies of his books worldwide RICK RIORDAN IS THE MYTHMASTER The Greek Gods are alive and kicking - go to www.rickriordanmythmaster.co.uk and see for yourself
The Lightning Thief
- Publisher : Unknown Publisher
- Release : 2010
- Pages : 329
- ISBN : 9876543210XXX
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
The Lightning Thief / Greek Myths Paired Set
- Publisher : Unknown Publisher
- Release : 2021
- Pages : 329
- ISBN : 9781482434101
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - The Graphic Novel (Book 1 of Percy Jackson)
- Publisher : Penguin UK
- Release : 2014-01-30
- Pages : 128
- ISBN : 0141353104
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
Percy Jackson - now in stunning graphic novel e-book form! Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That's when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends, and generally trying to stay alive. This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea. Can Percy find the lightning bolt before a fully-fledged war of the Gods erupts? Rick Riordan has now sold an incredible 55 million copies of his books worldwide
The Lightning Thief
- Publisher : Turtleback Books
- Release : 2010-10
- Pages : 128
- ISBN : 9780606236102
- Language : En, Es, Fr & De
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
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'Thats impossible,' Annabeth said, 'unless we—'
'Fly,' I agreed.
She stared at me. 'Fly, like, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, and carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?'
'Yeah,' I said. 'Pretty much exactly like that. Come on. '
21. I SETTLE MY TAB
Its funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality. Chiron had told me that long ago. As usual, I didnt appreciate his wisdom until much later.
According to the L. A. news, the explosion at the Santa Monica beach had been caused when a crazy kidnapper fired a shotgun at a police car. He accidentally hit a gas main that had ruptured during the earthquake.
This crazy kidnapper (a. k. a. Ares) was the same man who had abducted me and two other adolescents in New York and brought us across country on a ten-day odyssey of terror.
Poor little Percy Jackson wasnt an international criminal after all. Hed caused a commotion on that Greyhound bus in New Jersey trying to get away from his captor (and afterward, witnesses would even swear they had seen the leather-clad man on the bus—'Why didnt I remember him before?'). The crazy man had caused the explosion in the St. Louis Arch. After all, no kid couldve done that. A concerned waitress in Denver had seen the man threatening his abductees outside her diner, gotten a friend to take a photo, and notified the police. Finally, brave Percy Jackson (I was beginning to like this kid) had stolen a gun from his captor in Los Angeles and battled him shotgun-to-rifle on the beach. Police had arrived just in time. But in the spectacular explosion, five police cars had been destroyed and the captor had fled. No fatalities had occurred. Percy Jackson and his two friends were safely in police custody.
The reporters fed us this whole story. We just nodded and acted tearful and exhausted (which wasnt hard), and played victimized kids for the cameras.
'All I want,' I said, choking back my tears, 'is to see my loving stepfather again. Every time I saw him on TV, calling me a delinquent punk, I knew . . . somehow . . . we would be okay. And I know hell want to reward each and every person in this beautiful city of Los Angeles with a free major appliance from his store. Heres the phone number. ' The police and reporters were so moved that they passed around the hat and raised money for three tickets on the next plane to New York.
I knew there was no choice but to fly. I hoped Zeus would cut me some slack, considering the circumstances. But it was still hard to force myself on board the flight.
Takeoff was a nightmare. Every spot of turbulence was scarier than a Greek monster. I didnt unclench my hands from the armrests until we touched down safely at La Guardia. The local press was waiting for us outside security, but we managed to evade them thanks to Annabeth, who lured them away in her invisible Yankees cap, shouting, 'Theyre over by the frozen yogurt! Come on!' then rejoined us at baggage claim.
We split up at the taxi stand. I told Annabeth and Grover to get back to Half-Blood Hill and let Chiron know what had happened. They protested, and it was hard to let them go after all wed been through, but I knew I had to do this last part of the quest by myself. If things went wrong, if the gods didnt believe me . . . I wanted Annabeth and Grover to survive to tell Chiron the truth.
I hopped in a taxi and headed into Manhattan.
Thirty minutes later, I walked into the lobby of the EmpireStateBuilding.
I must have looked like a homeless kid, with my tattered clothes and my scraped-up face. I hadnt slept in at least twenty-four hours.
I went up to the guard at the front desk and said, 'Six hundredth floor. '
He was reading a huge book with a picture of a wizard on the front. I wasnt much into fantasy, but the book mustve been good, because the guard took a while to look up. 'No such floor, kiddo. '
'I need an audience with Zeus. '
He gave me a vacant smile. 'Sorry?'
'You heard me. '
I was about to decide this guy was just a regular mortal, and Id better run for it before he called the straitjacket patrol, when he said, 'No appointment, no audience, kiddo. Lord Zeus doesnt see anyone unannounced. '
'Oh, I think hell make an exception. ' I slipped off my backpack and unzipped the top.
The guard looked inside at the metal cylinder, not getting what it was for a few seconds. Then his face went pale. 'That isnt. . . '
'Yes, it is,' I promised. 'You want me take it out and—'
'No! No!' He scrambled out of his seat, fumbled around his desk for a key card, then handed it to me. 'Insert this in the security slot. Make sure nobody else is in the elevator with you. '
I did as he told me. As soon as the elevator doors closed, I slipped the key into the slot. The card disappeared and a new button appeared on the console, a red one that said 600.
I pressed it and waited, and waited.
Muzak played. 'Raindrops keep falling on my head. . . . '
Finally, ding. The doors slid open. I stepped out and almost had a heart attack.
I was standing on a narrow stone walkway in the middle of the air. Below me was Manhattan, from the height of an airplane. In front of me, white marble steps wound up the spine of a cloud, into the sky. My eyes followed the stairway to its end, where my brain just could not accept what I saw.
Look again, my brain said.
Were looking, my eyes insisted. Its really there.
From the top of the clouds rose the decapitated peak of a mountain, its summit covered with snow. Clinging to the mountainside were dozens of multileveled palaces—a city of mansions—all with white-columned porticos, gilded terraces, and bronze braziers glowing with a thousand fires. Roads wound crazily up to the peak, where the largest palace gleamed against the snow. Precariously perched gardens bloomed with olive trees and rosebushes. I could make out an open-air market filled with colorful tents, a stone amphitheater built on one side of the mountain, a hippodrome and a coliseum on the other. It was an Ancient Greek city, except it wasnt in ruins. It was new, and clean, and colorful, the way Athens mustve looked twenty-five hundred years ago.
This place cant be here, I told myself. The tip of a mountain hanging over New York City like a billion-ton asteroid? How could something like that be anchored above the EmpireStateBuilding, in plain sight of millions of people, and not get noticed?
But here it was. And here I was.
My trip through Olympus was a daze. I passed some giggling wood nymphs who threw olives at me from their garden. Hawkers in the market offered to sell me ambrosia-on-a-stick, and a new shield, and a genuine glitter-weave replica of the Golden Fleece, as seen on Hephaestus-TV The nine muses were tuning their instruments for a concert in the park while a small crowd gathered—satyrs and naiads and a bunch of good-looking teenagers who mightve been minor gods and goddesses. Nobody seemed worried about an impending civil war. In fact, everybody seemed in a festive mood. Several of them turned to watch me pass, and whispered to themselves.
I climbed the main road, toward the big palace at the peak. It was a reverse copy of the palace in the Underworld.
There, everything had been black and bronze. Here, everything glittered white and silver.
I realized Hades mustve built his palace to resemble this one. He wasnt welcomed in Olympus except on the winter solstice, so hed built his own Olympus underground. Despite my bad experience with him, I felt a little sorry for the guy. To be banished from this place seemed really unfair. It would make anybody bitter.
Steps led up to a central courtyard. Past that, the throne loom.
Room really isnt the right word. The place made Grand Central Station look like a broom closet. Massive columns rose to a domed ceiling, which was gilded with moving constellations.
Twelve thrones, built for beings the size of Hades, were arranged in an inverted U, just like the cabins at CampHalf-Blood. An enormous fire crackled in the central hearth pit. The t
hrones were empty except for two at the end: the head throne on the right, and the one to its immediate left. I didnt have to be told who the two gods were that were sitting there, waiting for me to approach. I came toward them, my legs trembling.
The gods were in giant human form, as Hades had been, but I could barely look at them without feeling a tingle, as if my body were starting to burn. Zeus, the Lord of the Gods, wore a dark blue pinstriped suit. He sat on a simple throne of solid platinum. He had a well-trimmed beard, marbled gray and black like a storm cloud. His face was proud and handsome and grim, his eyes rainy gray.
As I got nearer to him, the air crackled and smelled of ozone.
The god sitting next to him was his brother, without a doubt, but he was dressed very differently. He reminded me of a beachcomber from Key West. He wore leather sandals, khaki Bermuda shorts, and a Tommy Bahama shirt with coconuts and parrots all over it. His skin was deeply tanned, his hands scarred like an old-time fishermans. His hair was black, like mine. His face had that same brooding look that had always gotten me branded a rebel. But his eyes, seagreen like mine, were surrounded by sun-crinkles that told me he smiled a lot, too.
His throne was a deep-sea fishermans chair. It was the simple swiveling kind, with a black leather seat and a built-in holster for a fishing pole. Instead of a pole, the holster held a bronze trident, flickering with green light around the tips.
The gods werent moving or speaking, but there was tension in the air, as if theyd just finished an argument.
I approached the fishermans throne and knelt at his feet. 'Father. ' I dared not look up. My heart was racing. I could feel the energy emanating from the two gods. If I said the wrong thing, I had no doubt they could blast me into dust.
To my left, Zeus spoke. 'Should you not address the master of this house first, boy?'
I kept my head down, and waited.
'Peace, brother,' Poseidon finally said. His voice stirred my oldest memories: that warm glow I remembered as a baby, the sensation of this gods hand on my forehead, 'The boy defers to his father. This is only right. '
'You still claim him then?' Zeus asked, menacingly. 'You claim this child whom you sired against our sacred oath?'
'I have admitted my wrongdoing,' Poseidon said. 'Now I would hear him speak. '
Wrongdoing.
A lump welled up in my throat. Was that all I was? A wrongdoing? The result of a gods mistake?
'I have spared him once already,' Zeus grumbled. 'Daring to fly through my domain . . . pah! I should have blasted him out of the sky for his impudence. '
'And risk destroying your own master bolt?' Poseidon asked calmly. 'Let us hear him out, brother. '
Zeus grumbled some more. 'I shall listen,' he decided. 'Then I shall make up my mind whether or not to cast this boy down from Olympus. '
'Perseus,' Poseidon said. 'Look at me. '
I did, and I wasnt sure what I saw in his face. There was no clear sign of love or approval. Nothing to encourage me. It was like looking at the ocean: some days, you could tell what mood it was in. Most days, though, it was unreadable, mysterious.
I got the feeling Poseidon really didnt know what to think of me. He didnt know whether he was happy to have me as a son or not. In a strange way, I was glad that Poseidon was so distant. If hed tried to apologize, or told me he loved me, or even smiled, it wouldve felt fake. Like a human dad, making some lame excuse for not being around. I could live with that. After all, I wasnt sure about him yet, either.