an indirect intervention to save a kin
a tale by rick riordan
You must not let yourself be baited into hasty action! This could be a trap of the titan lord. Remember last summer! He almost took your life.
My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.
It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you...
Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... even the gods.
Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really is messed up? What if we could do it all over again from scratch?
No more war. Nobody homeless...
And you start thinking the way Luke does: If I could tear this all down, I would do it better.
Don't you ever feel that way? Like you could do a better job if you ran the world?
Every hero has a fatal flaw. If you don't find it and learn to control it... well, they don't call it fatal for nothing.
You live in both worlds. You can be harmed by both, and you can affect both. That's what makes heroes so special. You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal.
Monsters never die. They are reborn from the chaos and barbarism that is always bubbling underneath civilisation... They must be defeated again and again, kept at bay.
Heroes embody that struggle. You fight the battles humanity must win, every generation, in order to stay human. Do you understand?
Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy.
Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related, for better or worse...