Maybe they were just happy to have something to do, but the way Percy spoke, I got the feeling he was used to rallying outnumbered troops. Stall them!”įor some reason, the kids listened. “You guys,” Percy told the kids, “you hear those sirens? You’ve got to run down the road and stop the police. One of the kids offered me his Super Soaker. The crocodile kept thrashing and wiping out homes as it tried to clear its nostril. Amazingly, none of them seemed to be hurt. We jogged to the opposite end of the cul-de-sac, where the mortal kids had gathered. The crocodile whipped around, and Percy grabbed me just in time, pulling me out of the trampling path.
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I stared in horror as my wax creature, now a living (though very misshapen) hippo, either tried to wriggle free of the croc’s nostril or work its way farther into the reptile’s sinus cavity-I wasn’t sure which. The crocodile hissed and stumbled, shaking his head, as Percy dropped off and rolled away, barely avoiding the crocodile’s stomping feet. Not exactly my finest tactical move but having a hippo shoved up his nose must have been sufficiently distracting. It sailed headfirst into the crocodile’s left nostril and lodged there, kicking its stubby back legs. Instantly the world’s most deformed hippopotamus sprang to life in midair. As he lunged, I threw my shabti, only half formed, and barked a command word. I was still shaping the clump of wax, trying to make it into a figurine, when the crocodile decided to stop savoring the moment and just eat me.
Whatever and whoever Percy was, he was no magician. It would take a magician to figure it out and open it. That was the smartest thing he’d said all afternoon (not that he’d said a lot of smart things to choose from). I didn’t dare take my eyes off the croc’s, but in my peripheral vision I could see Percy pounding his fist against the base of the necklace. I dropped my pack and started working the wax furiously with both hands, trying to soften it. I didn’t have time to build a proper shabti, but I had no better idea. The only thing I found was a clump of wax. His lamp-yellow eyes filmed over, maybe from happiness. His hide shed water like the grossest fountain in the world, making my shoes slosh as I walked. I backed up to the curb and tried-ridiculously-to stare down the monster. It just meant more mortals were racing here as fast as they could to volunteer as crocodile snacks. Somebody had called the police, which didn’t exactly cheer me up. I certainly had a blast mixing up the Egyptian and Greek worlds.Īn excerpt from the story can be found on Disney’s Facebook Kane Chronicles’ page.In the distance, sirens wailed.
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It’s not a full novel, because I have been spending most of my time working on The House of Hades, and I know you don’t want me taking more time away from that project than I absolutely have to! The e-single will be priced accordingly, and I hope you find the adventure worth it.
In print, it runs about forty pages, though I think it packs a lot of adventure into those pages. Now please be aware this is a SHORT STORY. I can’t say if/when it will be available in other countries and other translations. As always, this information only applies to the US market, as that’s the only country I get info for. As soon as I have more information about the e-release, I will let you know. Well, the story will be released first in the paperback edition, since that’s what I wrote it for, but fear not - there will be other ways to get “The Son of Sobek.” Disney will be releasing it a little later in the summer as an e-single and audio, read by yours truly - the first time I’ve ever narrated the entire audio for my own story. “Do I have to buy it again just to read this story?” “But what if I’ve already bought The Serpent’s Shadow?” you ask. If you buy the paperback version of Serpent’s Shadow on May 7, “The Son of Sobek” will be at the end of the book, no extra charge. Let’s throw Carter and Percy together in a Greek-Egyptian dilemma and see what happens. This is something fans have been asking me to do for years, but why this story and why now? My publisher Disney-Hyperion was looking for something fun to add to the paperback version of The Serpent’s Shadow, which comes out May 7 - something to encourage folks who haven’t yet tried the Kane Chronicles to pick up the series. As announced today in Publisher’s Weekly Children’s Bookshelf, I have written a crossover story featuring Carter Kane and Percy Jackson.
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