Grover Underwood

Percy hits her with the, uh, okay.

So, you know, he's catching on fast Grover.

to contrast, is simping hard.

Grover loves him some Artemis.

He's gasping.

He's kneeling hastily in the snow.

And to pause before we move into how Bianca responds, because I think at that point, that's when things really start to shift in terms of what this chapter is doing.

Yep.

Also, stoner teenage goat is one of the funniest things I think I've ever fucking read.

I want to see Ilya Rozanov and Grover Underwood have a meal together.

That's what it made me think

of.

... which was quite amusing as an adult to read it, and when I will allay your fears, I deeply enjoyed it, and I did laugh out loud at multiple points.

But also it just gave me such joy because it's, it's almost like a, a capsule in time, being written like 20 years ago, so it was so familiar to me, and he makes the [laughs] joke about like Grover only knows how to play, on his little reed pipes, Mozart and Hilary Duff, and I just [laughs] ...

A Hilary Duff reference in the book.

I was like, "This is so good.

when you get to the [laughs] Heroes of, it's almost like you can see the insanity behind my eyes.

[laughs]

I l- I literally, I was thinking about this last night and I was like, he did such a good job because you get so much more, um, 'cause obviously here you've got Grover, which is a satyr, so you get his little, um, not POV, but you know, you get more about him, and then Poseidon and Athena.

But then when you go to Heroes o- of Olympus and the main characters, they're like, um, s- uh, son of He- Hephaestus, um, daughter of Aphrodite, um, son of Zeus.