Carter walloped me with a glowing blue fist once. Believe me, Egyptian magic is not something you want to get zapped with.’ Plus, if you run out there, he’ll probably zap you with a spell. ‘He might be able to see through invisibility. ‘Setne is supposedly the world’s greatest magician,’ she said.
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Her eyes were the same colour as the storm clouds. Even with her blonde hair plastered to the side of her face, she looked cute. ‘It’s working again, right? How about I distract Setne while you sneak up behind him? You can knock the book out of his hands.’Īnnabeth knitted her eyebrows. All the mortals evacuated Governors Island, leaving Annabeth and me stranded at an old fort with Crazy Elvis and the Flying Death Snakes. Just thought I should mention that, you know, in passing.)Īnnabeth decided that, instead of going to the movies, we should spend our Saturday slogging down to the bottom of Manhattan and taking the ferry to Governors Island, where Athena had told her that trouble was brewing.Īs soon as we got there, a freak hurricane slammed into New York Harbor. (By the way: her mom is Athena, the goddess of wisdom. Today, four weeks later, Annabeth showed up at my apartment at ten in the morning and announced that she’d had a bad dream – a vision from her mom. Sadie and Annabeth had exchanged numbers and agreed to keep in touch. Apparently this Setne had come back from the dead, snagged an ultra-powerful sorcery cheat sheet called the Book of Thoth and was playing around with Egyptian and Greek magic, hoping to find a way to become a god himself. Afterwards, Sadie told Annabeth that an ancient magician named Setne might be behind all the weirdness.
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They fought some godly dude named Serapis, who had a three-headed staff, and a cereal bowl for a hat. (Gee, I never would’ve guessed.) He wrote a magical hieroglyph on my hand and told me to call his name if I ever needed help.įast-forward to last month: Annabeth ran into Carter’s sister, Sadie Kane, on the A train to Rockaway. Carter postulated that some strange Egyptian–Greek hybrid stuff was happening. Together we defeated the crocodile, which Carter explained was a son of Sobek, the Egyptian crocodile god. A kid named Carter Kane showed up, said he was a magician and proceeded to help me by blowing up stuff with hieroglyphs and turning into a giant glowing chicken-headed warrior. Only problem: I wasn’t sure what the heck was going on.Ī couple of months ago, I fought this giant crocodile on Long Island. Whatever spell he’s casting, we have to stop him.’Īt this point I should probably back up and explain what the heck was going on. ‘The scroll he’s reading from is the Book of Thoth. If that wasn’t creepy enough, flying around him were half a dozen winged serpents, blowing flames in the rain. Basically the dude was in full-on crazy mode. As he paced, he read aloud from it, occasionally throwing back his head and laughing.
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In his hands he held an old scroll, like a treasure map. His greasy pompadour hairdo seemed impervious to the rain and the wind. He looked like a runty Elvis Presley, strutting back and forth in skinny black jeans, a powder-blue dress shirt and a black leather jacket. Our main problem was the guy standing in the middle of the lawn doing a magic ritual. Annabeth had told me this place was a fort or something from the Revolutionary War, but I hadn’t listened to the details. At the far end of an arched entryway, a grass courtyard stretched about a hundred yards square, surrounded by redbrick buildings.
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‘All right.’ Annabeth wiped the rain out of her eyes, which didn’t help, since it was pouring buckets. (Actually, I have been surrounded by fire-breathing death snakes before, but not ones with wings. But usually we weren’t stranded on Governors Island in the middle of a hurricane, surrounded by fire-breathing death snakes. Annabeth and I had been in a lot of bad situations without any backup. Usually I wouldn’t panic if the cavalry failed to show. He’d assured me that the magic couldn’t be washed away, but, with my luck, I’d accidentally wiped it off on my jeans or something. There wasn’t even a trace of the hieroglyph that Carter Kane had drawn on my palm almost two months back. ‘Try tapping the hieroglyph multiple times.’ I’m pretty sure his name is pronounced Carter.’ Next to me, pressed against the wall of the old fort, Annabeth peered into the rain, waiting for magical teenagers to fall out of the sky.