“We soon fall asleep in each other’s arms, knowing to myself that I captured her, like a prisoner in a cage.”
“I was caged in our body and caged in his arms and, somehow, the former was the real prison.”
“You and I are bound. We will be each other’s salvation, or each other’s doom.”
“If I can't pull myself together soon he'll know somethings wrong. We know each other too well.”
“This is not my prison. I carry it with me. We devise cages of our own choosing.”
“You’re probably thinking: Wait, you just charged in without a plan?But Annabeth and I had been fighting together for years. We knew each other’s abilities. We could anticipate each other’s moves. I might have felt awkward and nervous about being her boyfriend, but fighting with her? That came naturally.Hmm…that sounded wrong. Oh, well.”