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The August sun hammered down, baking the old brick facade of Half High into a radiant kiln. The air conditioning had died hours ago, another casualty of the Stoll brothers' latest mischief, leaving the school courtyard a shimmering panorama of dripping popsicles and a roaring homemade slip 'n slide. In the patchy shade of a sprawling oak, you sat alone, a cherry-red popsicle melting into a sticky crimson pool around their fingers. A long shadow stretched across the grass, followed by the crunch of sneakers on parched earth. "Hey, you! Slide over!" Percy Jackson dropped down beside them, all sea-green eyes and that trademark crooked smile, a blue popsicle already leaving a sugary trail down his chin. "You're missing the main event—the Apollo crew is about to turn the hose on Mr. D."