Reading The Dark Prophecy: Chapter 40 (SPOILERS)
"Shakespeare, don't bring that / Iambic pentameter" Either the Dodona screaming arrow starts spouting poetry or Meg does. Is the ultimate goal of this series to teach kids poetry?
"'A little warning, perhaps?' Jamie called." Yeah, the greatest danger a person falling out of a window poses is to the people below they may crush. How high up is it, anyway?
"We didn't see him." Oh, so he did fall into the void. Wtf?
"He Lityerses-ly flew out the window." Leo, you pull a muscle from that stretch? A for effort, though. I'll cut him some slack for the hostage situation he was just in.
"The two bumped fists as if they hadn't just spent the last few days talking about how much they wanted to kill each other. They would have made fine Olympian gods." Omg that's literally my family! We'd make great Olympian gods!
"[Thalia's] new gray highlights from my solar blast looked quite fetching." Did anyone else get gray highlights? Do Hunters' hair grow out? And again, skin cancer?
"We're going to need a bigger notepad." Why? Is iambic pentameter usually long?
"must the Lester go;" I'm fucking sorry? That caught me so off guard. I didn't expect his name to be so bluntly stated in the prophecy.
"Apollo starts to jive." Does jive mean something different here than I'm used to? I thought it meant to be on the same page as someone. JIVE (v.): 1. perform the jive or a similar dance to popular music 2. (Informal, US) taunt or sneer at 3. (Informal, US) talk nonsense
"But a full Shakespearean sonnet, complete with ABAB rhyme scheme, ending couplet, and iambic pentameter?" Oh, the horror! Not the couplets! These prophecies and chapterly haikus are slowly convincing me this whole series was an excuse for Rick Riordan to stretch his poetry-writing muscles.
"We will parse our doom later" PARSE (v.): analyze (a sentence) into its parts and describe their syntactic roles / examine or analyze minutely
"It kept me from thinking too much about the lines of the Dark Prophecy." Ay, he said the thing!
"I redesigned him so he's like a Lego kit, built for quick assembly!" Thank-freaking-goodness! He knows Festus is gonna get crunched, so he plans ahead!
"dissolving them into light. Could a quasi-deity such as Commodus do something like that to himself?" We haven't seen much of any of the Triumvirate's godly powers yet. This could be one. I'd be surprised if he died so easily. Anyway, important thing is that the triple-threat battle is still possible!
Hey, wait, why aren't Hades, Persephone, or Thanatos on the Triumvirate's case yet? They're escaped souls! I know we've established that souls escape all the time, but this should be pretty high on the ghost-wrangling list!
"Their bodies desiccate when their spirits pass on" DESICCATE (v.): remove the moisture from (something); cause to become completely dry "Heloise's body crumbled to dust." Okay, so it was just holding together for the funeral. Maybe that means she'll regenerate eventually? Let me cling onto that hope.
"Made this for you. You can take it with you when you go away." Noooo I just know they're gonna pull at our heartstrings with this little doll later down the line.
"if you ever want to talk--" "No, I'm good." Mood.
"Yet I could no longer feel annoyed with her for giving up my gift of divinity." Yeahhhhhh he's understanding
"hide his bald pate." Probably means head or scalp. PATE (n.): a person's head
"What of the Dark Prophecy?" Did everyone just unanimously agree to call it the Dark Prophecy? Do they all just hate it because it's too long?
Did everyone just unanimously agree to call it the Dark Prophecy? Do they all just hate it because it's too long?
isn’t is because it was received from trophonius? (I can never spell his name right; autocorrect isn’t right either, whatever “trephines” are) I think he was known as “the dark oracle” (which is funny, because his father was the god of sun/light. rebel emo child moment)
That’s true that it was from Trophonius, but I imagine the other prophecies he gives out aren’t all called The Dark Prophecy(TM). Although, they probably haven’t had any other prophecies from him in recent memory, so you’re right
his father was the god of sun/light. rebel emo child moment)
Lmao that’s so true actually

















