“Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.”

—  Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

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