![]() “I believe those lines mean we will soon know the identity of all three emperors. I was still sore that Earth, Wind & Fire had rejected my audition in 1973 because I was jive-deficient. “Hmph.” I did not feel like getting into that topic. ![]() Leo snapped his fingers and began dancing in his seat. “That just leaves the closing couplet: When three are known and Tiber reached alive, / ’Tis only then Apollo starts to jive.” Meg McCaffrey, a girl of few words and much belching.Ĭalypso flipped to the next page of her notepad. “But we haven’t seen a satyr in these parts since-” That means you get a satyr? They’re guides, aren’t they, like Coach Hedge was? That’s, like, their thing.” “That next line, The cloven guide alone the way does know. Then she shoved another biscuit in her mouth like an act of rebellion: Make me talk now, sucker. “Meg,” I said, “what about the line Demeter’s daughter finds her ancient roots? Do you have any family in the Southwest? Do you remember ever going there before?” ![]() I could not wrap my mental fingers around the answer. Something unsettled me about that third stanza: to westward palace, in thine own enemy’s boots. Most Roman emperors liked to portray themselves as victorious generals riding their steeds through Rome. I turned over phrases of the prophecy in my mind-master of the swift white horse. Give me something I can shoot.”Įmmie kissed the girl’s forehead. Annabeth told me how she met the Sphinx in the Labyrinth once. “But she was known to issue her prophecies in acrostics-word puzzles.”
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