"I've been fighting for eternity, kid. My strength is unlimited and I cannot die. What have you got?" A smaller ego, I thought, but I said nothing. I kept my feet in the surf, backing into the water up to my ankles. I thought back to what Annabeth had said at the Denver diner, so long ago: Ares has strength. That's all he has. Even strength has to how to wisdom sometimes. He cleaved downward at my head, but I wasn't there.