Ac resists trance

The sadness in her voice sounded so deep and so real that I couldn’t help feeling sorry for her.
Annabeth had stopped eating. She sat forward and said, “Two sisters?”

My eyelids kept getting heavier, my full stomach making me sleepy. Poor old lady. Who would want to hurt somebody so nice?
“Percy?” Annabeth was shaking me to get my attention.
“Maybe we should go. I mean, the ringmaster will be waiting…

Percy—” Annabeth said.
Some instinct warned me to listen to Annabeth, but I was fighting the sleepy feeling, the comfortable lull that came from the food and the old lady’s voice… “Percy, something’s wrong,” Annabeth insisted.

I couldn’t move. I stared at Aunty Em’s gnarled claws, and tried to fight the groggy trance the old woman had put me in.