I’d come to respect the guy, but I still sensed that we weren’t meant to be friends. I thought about the uneasy feeling I’d had in my gut earlier-the voice in my head warning me not to tell Percy anything. If someone-something-unleashed that monster here, knowing it would draw both of our attention-” “Then maybe that someone wanted us to meet,” he finished. But until we figure out what’s going on, I think it’s best we keep some distance. “You’re not curious?” “I’m totally curious. And we made a good team today, but-” “You don’t want to share your secrets,” I said. You’re not nearly as annoying as I thought. At the time, Sadie had told me I was hallucinating. I still couldn’t believe he was talking about pegasi as if they were real, but I remembered one time at Brooklyn House, maybe a year back, when I was certain I saw a winged horse flying over the Manhattan skyline. “Some kind of camp, judging from your shirt. “It was eating pegasi in my…” He hesitated. He drew something in his ketchup with a french fry-not a hieroglyph. “Maybe they wanted to cause trouble that would get our attention. “I think maybe…” I studied Percy, trying to judge how much I should say.
“Someone wanted to cause trouble,” I speculated. It was good, but I had trouble concentrating on it. Any idea why, then?” I took another bite of my cheeseburger. I didn’t want to think about that, but I nodded reluctantly. ” “Meaning someone put it around his neck,” Percy said. Somehow that little crocodile got it around his neck. “Any reptile that wears it turns into the next petsuchos, the Son of Sobek. “The necklace is enchanted,” I said at last. But if my world expanded tenfold again, I was afraid my brain might explode. Now I was standing at the edge of another moment like that. In a single day, my world expanded tenfold and left me reeling. I felt sort of like I had two winters ago, when my uncle Amos explained the truth about the Kane family heritage-the House of Life, the Egyptian gods, the Duat, everything. Everything we said could have serious implications-not just for the two of us, but maybe for everyone we knew.
Still, I sensed we were treading on dangerous ground. Now that we’d fought together, I couldn’t help but trust him. I still had no clue where Percy came from or what he was, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to ask. “So, the necklace,” he said between bites. ” “Agreed,” I said, but when I glanced over at him, I wondered if he was thinking the same thing I was: that we were referring to different gods. I could pull money out of thin air, since I kept some stored in the Duat along with my other emergency supplies so in no time we had cheeseburgers and fries in front of us, and life was looking up. “Uh, actually…can you conjure up money?” So, naturally, lunch was on me. ” He dug into the pockets of his jeans and pulled out a ballpoint pen.
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.“A freak sewer accident,” Percy said.
The son of sobek book full#
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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