The Tower of Nero - Impale Germanus

My old friend Grr-Fred, Mighty of Hats, Corporate Security Chief, leaped from a light fixture, brained a guard, then landed on the conference table and grinned at me. He’d topped his police hat with a new baseball cap that read TRIUMVIRATE HOLDINGS .

‘GOOD COMBAT, Lester-Apollo!’ He beat his tiny fists against his chest, then ripped a speakerphone from the table and threw it in the face of an oncoming guard.

Nico guided me through the chaos. We ducked through another doorway and ran straight into a Germanus, whom Nico impaled with his Stygian iron blade without even breaking stride.

‘The Camp Half-Blood landing zone is just ahead,’ he told me as if nothing had happened.

‘Landing zone?’


- The Tower of Nero, Chapter 26