Chapter VII
Katya
Sadie sat up front with me, wanting to give the two love-birds a little space. I kept my eyes on the road while Sadie twiddled her thumbs.
"So," she began turning in her seat to face me. "How'd you get away from the Set animal?"
"After you left I jumped out of the window—"
"You what?" She exclaimed.
"I jumped out the window, dragging the Set animal down with me. I made a huge pile of snow at the last minute and it mostly broke my fall but I broke a rib. The Set animal was dazed and confused by the snow I killed it. I got a friend to bring me to the Egyptian Queen."
"You make it sound easy," Sadie said.
"I've been fighting monsters like that one my whole life, its second nature to me." Sadie was quiet after that, pondering what I'd said.
Sadie
It was hard to think that Katya never had a normal life. She was the one who most deserved it. Then I realized I barely knew anything about her, but it felt like we knew each other forever.
"How old are you, exactly?" I asked. I seemed to make her uncomfortable. Oh, well. I would like to know the person I'm about to (hopefully) save the world with.
"Fourteen. What about you?"
"Twelve," I don't know why I felt embarrassed. Maybe because she was so collected, and mature and I was just… me. "Where do you go to school?" I asked.
"I don't go to school," that just made things more awkward. I wanted to know about the girl I was starting to look up to.
"Do you have a boyfriend?"
She froze. "No."
"Do you like anyone?"
"No."
"Do you even know any guys?" I asked.
"Yes, they're my best friends. I don't like Percy or Grover that way." I felt that was the end of the one-sided conversation. So we sat in silence.
Katya
A light rain pattered against the windows and I turned on the windshield wipers. Then a figure appeared in the light of my headlights.
I hit the brakes quickly, stopping right in front of the figure. It was Amos. I ran out of the car, "Amos!" I hugged him tightly. He hugged me back. "What happened?" I asked pulling away.
"I distracted Sekhmet," he said putting a finger through one of the holes in his coat, "for about eleven seconds. I'm glad to see you survived."
"There was a salsa factory," Carter started to explain, but Amos held up his hand.
"Time for explanations later," he said. "Right now we have to get going."
He pointed northwest, and I saw what he meant. The storm was way worse up ahead. A lot worse. A wall of black dotted out the night sky, the mountains, the highway, as if it would swallow the whole world.
"Set's storm is gathering," Amos said with a twinkle in his eyes. "Shall we drive into it?"
I crowed, and jumped into the air, like the way Peter Pan does and ran back into the car.
"Why is it she only gets excited when we're doing something dangerous?" I heard Sadie mumble.
Two chapters in one day! Man, am I proud of myself. Though this one is short, it was the size of the chapter in the book, and that's what I'm going on. Seven more chapters left of this volume. I'm serious this time. Then after that is Katya Kane and the Battle of the Labyrinth. Can't wait to get some Camp Half-Blood action in.
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