Prologue

" They're on their way," I said. " You've lost."

"I haven't even started."

He advanced with blinding speed. Grover- brave, stupid satyr that he was- tried to protect me, but Kronos tossed him aside like a rag doll... My sword skittered across the ground and fell straight into the open fissure.

"STOP!" Annabeth came out of nowhere.

-Rick Riordan